Re^3: Semicolons in webforms

# strxmltext is a string variable sent by the webserver and will conta
+in a semicolon
my $stringvariabe = $args{strxmltext};
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So, if "$stringvariabe" contains a value like "item1;bottle", and you want to "parse" that, do you mean that you want to split on semicolon to get a "name, value" pair -- like this?

my ( $name, $value ) = split /;/, $stringvariabe;
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If you sometimes get three or more strings separated by semicolons, you probably want to assign the result of split to an array:

my @strings = split /;/, $stringvariabe;
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Is there something more complicated about the task that you haven't mentioned yet?

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Re^4: Semicolons in webforms by dmaranan (Acolyte) on Dec 30, 2007 at 22:14 UTC
Unfortunately I don't have any control over the client. The problem is that the client is intentionally sending the semicolon as a delimiter (its written in C#). The other issue is the xml string could be a very large xml string with many semicolons. Ideally, I'd be able to simply replace the semicolons with pipes. I'm not really looking to do name value pairs since I need to do further processing of the XML before I handled the data that is delimited with semicolons. Any other advise? Here is another example if this is helpful: `# this line represents the xml that I would receive from a client. $xmlstring = '<listofitems> <item> <itemid>1234</itemid> <itemname>genericname</itemname> <tablefield>1234;id</tablefield> </item> <item> <itemid>1235></itemid> <itemname>genericname2</itemname> <tablefield>1235;id</tablefield> <tablefield>1;specialtiem</tablefield> </item> </listofitems>';` [download] In my program I would then parse the xml data into other variables. The problem is that when I attempt to parse the data the semicolon in the tablefield xml tag screws it up. TIA.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Semicolons in webforms by eserte (Deacon) on Dec 31, 2007 at 00:14 UTC
The client may use the semicolon as some kind of internal separator for the XML data, but if the data goes through a HTTP-GET or urlencoded HTTP-POST request, then it must be properly escaped.	[reply]