But parsing is not the big issue (thanks Charles for sending me a small program that does just that), the issue here is sticking the results in a variable (or variables), Russ' suggestion would work, but only in native Plan 9 and not in p9p.
Still, I might be able to hack something up if characters don't get deleted, which seems like a real bug to me. But while I don't like arbitrary limits (specially when I hit them ;)), I can understand that for the sake of simplicity it makes sense to have them and not fall into the 'lets handle every possibility under the sun' dogma. Which makes me wonder, would it be excessive to double the current limit? While 8k is quite ample, 16k would be even more so :) Thanks everyone for all the ideas and suggestions uriel On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:25 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Tue Mar 17 20:29:50 EDT 2009, urie...@gmail.com wrote: >> > why can't you just let ifs = $newline (formatted to fit your screen) ? >> >> Unfortunately that doesn't work in this case, my input is HTTP post >> data, which is a single line of URL-encoded text which I have to >> decode into multiple parameters of arbitrary length. > > why not write a small program to crack the post data. > might take ½ an hour, tops. > > - erik > >
