What Connie is looking for is something that translates an ordinary string
to a "urlencoded" string,
I don't know what does that but I got around the problem myself by using
the modules:
LWP::UserAgent;
HTTP::Request::Common;
Jonathan
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Subject: Re: What is this string type? How to play with?
> Connie,
> Something like the following is probably what you are looking for. Of
course what you should be
> doing is using CGI.pm or some other tested form of input retrieval.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> my @variables = split(/[\&\;]/, $input);
> foreach $variable (@variables) {
> next if ($variable !~ /\=/);
>
> my ($name, $value) = split(/\=/, $variable);
>
> $name =~ tr/+/ /;
> $name =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
> $value =~ tr/+/ /;
> $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
>
> # assignment to some form of a variable structure that you will be
> # using out side this loop. Keep in mind, you may have multiple
> # values for the same name.
> }
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Connie Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:21 PM
> Subject: What is this string type? How to play with?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> With get method from form, we always see that the
> $ENV{QUERY_STRING} like this :
> &message=%20%2F%15+...&.......
>
> btw, what is the name of that string in types of ? Escape ? Unicode ?
>
> With simple tr/// and s///, I can get back what exact the input
> is, but, how can I make a the input back to the.... above format ?
> Totally have no idea...
>
> Rgds,
> Connie
>
>
>
>
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