"Purcell, Scott" wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a question about the CGI.pm module I have been using.
>
> Anyway, I am a procedural guy, so I get all my data like this:
> my $fieldval = param('sometextfield');
>
> My question: When I get the $fieldval, is it clean of whitespace in the
> front and back? Sometimes I run queries against a SQL database and compare
> what the user entered in a web page against what is in sql.
>
> Lately (I don't know the reason), I constantly clean all the param values:
> $fieldval =~ s/^\s+//;
> $fieldval =~ s/\s+$//;
>
> Do I need to do this or does CGI.pm perform the cleanup? I was hoping
> someone may have an answer. Or it would be interesting to hear if others do
> what I do, or if I am paying the price in time for cleaning?
You will need to check them yourself if you want to remove l/t WS.
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