Help on URlencoding

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

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Re: Help on URlencoding by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 21, 2006 at 06:00 UTC
Have a look at CGI::Enurl and CGI::Deurl or URI::Escape. For example: `use strict; use URI::Escape; while (my $string = <DATA>) { chomp $string; if ($string eq uri_unescape($string)) { print "'$string' was not URI-encoded.\n"; } else { print "'$string' was URI-encoded.\n"; } } __DATA__ A%20horse%2C%20a%20horse!%20My%20kingdom%20for%20a%20horse! A plain string` [download] CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Help on URlencoding by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 21, 2006 at 06:06 UTC
Do you want to check for URLencoding, or that the string is a valid URL (or URI)? Data::Validate::URI can be used to validate URIs of various sorts. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^2: Help on URlencoding by naveenkabra (Initiate) on Jun 21, 2006 at 07:02 UTC
Hi, how can i download this Data::Validate::URI module and where i need too put it.	[reply]
Re^3: Help on URlencoding by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 21, 2006 at 07:13 UTC
Either use CPAN if you are on a *nix system, or ppm if you use Windows and have ActiveState Perl installed. See the Tutorials section Installing Modules. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re: Help on URlencoding by pbeckingham (Parson) on Jun 21, 2006 at 13:04 UTC
If you actually perform the un-encoding, then if the result differs from the input, then yes, it was encoded. pbeckingham - typist, perishable vertebrate.	[reply]