>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Colin> Gidday all,
Colin> In my mailing list form I have a hidden field that stores the date the
Colin> subscriber subscribed.
Colin> When processing the form the date in this format 3/1/2003 is converted to
Colin> 3%2F1%2F2003.
Colin> Can someone give me a regex to convert it back again please. Im only new to
Colin> perl and am struggling with regex's
Don't use a regex. If you use CGI.pm, you never have to think about
encoding or decoding *anything*.
during HTML generation:
param('my_hidden', '3/1/2003');
print hidden('my_hidden');
during CGI response:
my $input = param('my_hidden');
No mess, no stress.
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