Perl/Cgi : How to Create Url with variables and values (get method) from Scrach?

EchoAngel has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, I finally got the CGI::Explorer package to work. However, it is quite limited in my usage. So I have to include urls for every tree link. I am using GET method for processing the data. I have the absolute url and I want to add variables and values to it. What is the syntax for it? Is there a simple way? For example, say I have fruit = banana. I know I would do www.myscript.cgi?fruit=banana. But how would it work if my variables/values have any kind of characters (say %)?

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Re: Perl/Cgi : How to Create Url with variables and values (get method) from Scrach? by Frantz (Monk) on Jan 27, 2005 at 22:56 UTC
You must encode the values. See the source code of CGI::Util in escape function : `$toencode =~ s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_.-])/uc sprintf("%%%02x",ord($1))/eg +;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl/Cgi : How to Create Url with variables and values (get method) from Scrach? by EchoAngel (Pilgrim) on Jan 27, 2005 at 23:46 UTC
thanks! this helps!	[reply]
Re: Perl/Cgi : How to Create Url with variables and values (get method) from Scrach? by amw1 (Friar) on Jan 27, 2005 at 22:41 UTC
You'll want to use something like URI::Escape on your keys and values. This will do things like turn the string Hi There into Hi%20There So you don't confuse the browser/script. I know that CGI.pm automatically deals with translating from URI encoded strings when you get them from the object, I haven't used CGI::Explorer so you may need to manually decode them as well.	[reply]