Thanks Justin... Never worked with CGI...It's a new module for me...Digging it...Thanks again.
-----Original Message----- From: Justin Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Removing "+" in $ENV{QUERY_STRING} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello List, > > I am trying to build a webpage where I can enter hostname in a text box and up on hitting the key this searches multiple .csv files and prints them in the webpage itself. I am facing a problem with $ENV(QUERY_STRING} which take "+" when the textbox is entered with spaces in the beginning or end. > > Tried to remove the starting and end spaces by > s/^\s+// and s/\s+$// .Nothing works for me here. Am I doing any thing wrong here? > > Can any one help me in removing the "+" in the printed value? Because of this "+" in the variable my search does not work. Many people have already dealt with the problems of parsing the CGI environment variables. No need to re-invent that wheel :-) Check out the 'CGI' module. The examples in the documentation will get you started very quickly. $ perldoc CGI - Justin -- Justin Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawkins.id.au/~justin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
