escaping in CGI.pm

2005-06-24 Thread Scott Taylor
Grr... Arg... Hello all, I'm working on my first Perl/CGI database app and run into a bit of a snag: http://myserver/lseid.cgi?LeaseOPID=ADT89theCmd=EditIt this line finds the right data however, everything after the in the LeaseOPID ($row-{leaseopid}) ADT89 gets truncated in this form line:

Re: escaping in CGI.pm

2005-06-24 Thread Joshua Colson
Scott, You're trying to use an ampersand in your URL. Ampersands are special characters in URLs so you must escape it if you want it to be passed as the actual character instead of carrying the special meaning. See http://www.december.com/html/spec/esccodes.html On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 12:51

Re: escaping in CGI.pm

2005-06-24 Thread Scott Taylor
Joshua Colson said: Scott, You're trying to use an ampersand in your URL. Ampersands are special characters in URLs so you must escape it if you want it to be passed as the actual character instead of carrying the special meaning. See http://www.december.com/html/spec/esccodes.html As I

Re: escaping in CGI.pm

2005-06-24 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Scott Taylor wrote: Joshua Colson said: Scott, You're trying to use an ampersand in your URL. Ampersands are special characters in URLs so you must escape it if you want it to be passed as the actual character instead of carrying the special meaning. See