Re: Handling & =

[Wiggins d'Anconia]

Do you know what browser(s)? Most browsers should encode the & as "%26" and then your split would work properly. On a side note why re-invent the wheel, when it has already been invented lots of times, see CGI module on CPAN, or any one of the hundreds of CGI sites that give you source code to parse query strings....

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John Stokes wrote:

I have an ongoing problem.

As you know, HTML encodes GET and POST requests using the format:
"myurl.com?name1=value1&name2=value2&..."

My problem is, I have users constantly using ampersands (&) in text fields
(ex: John & Jane Doe), so my data comes across as:
"?name1=value1&name2=val&ue2=&name3=value3" etc...

So, when I split this into a hash, the data after a user-entered & is
effectively lost. My current solution to this is to add a Javascript that
prevents the user from submitting the form if there's an & in the likely
text fields, BUT...

Is there an elegant solution to this? Can Perl process this effectively?

Thanks.

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