That is kool, but I am using CGI.pm like we all should be :)
On Monday, February 18, 2002 at 2:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John M) wrote:
> David,
>
> foreach $key (keys(%in))
> { $in{$key} =~ s/^\s+//; $in{$key} =~ s/\s+$//; }
>
> That's all you have to do.
>
> -jdm
>
> (%in is generated under cgi-lib.pl)
So back to my question do need to assign param() to hash?
Thx,
Dave
>From an earlier post:
This is great for 'Upper-casing' just the first letter of a string!
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $key ="today's Departure date";
$key =~ s/([\w'-]+)/\u$1/g;
print $key;
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>
> >From: David Gilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: removing white space revisited
> >Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:48:46 -0500
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >My goal is to clean up the fields submitted from a form and then be able
> >to use them in other places.
> >
> >Does the following modify the value of param('name') -- if I have a form
> >element named 'name' --
> >permanently (like when you have an array)
> >
> >
> >foreach my $key (param()){
> >
> >$val = param($key),
> >$value =~ s/^\s+//;
> >$value =~ s/\s+$//;
> >$key =~ s/\d$//;
> >
> >
> >print "$key: $val\n\n";
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >later in the script
> >
> >print param('email') # will this have been cleaned regrex in the up the
> >loop above?
> >
> >
> >Do I have to assign my 'cleaned' data to a hash?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Dave
> >
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