Hi Rajeev, On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> how good is: http://search.cpan.org/~zenin/CGI-Validate-2.000/Validate.pm I never used it. > > which is the best module for validating form data? > Well, I don't know about the best module globally , but at a previous workplace, we had a bad experience with http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-FormHandler/ (trying to use it in a Catalyst application we wrote), and ended up converting the code to use http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-FormFu/ instead. HTML-FormFu is not too bad from my experience. > can i have some pointers to some good examples please? You should be able to find them in HTML-FormFu's distribution as code samples in the .pod files, as tests in t/**/*.t, or as standalone examples in the distribution. There are also some in https://github.com/shlomif/catable and in other Catalyst apps that use FormFu. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > > > From: Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> > To: > Cc: Perl Beginners <beginners@perl.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 11:34 AM > Subject: Re: form POST string parser > > > Uri, > > thx. I like that suggestion, i totally missed that earlier. I will explore > cgi module. > > > > From: Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> > To: Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> > Cc: Perl Beginners <beginners@perl.org> > Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:24 PM > Subject: Re: form POST string parser > > >>>>> "RP" == Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> writes: > > RP> hi, > RP> > RP> which of the two is better? thx. > RP> > RP> $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; > RP> > RP> or > RP> $value =~ s/%(..)/chr(hex($1))/ge; > > both are bad because parsing your own http data is a bad thing. it has > little gotchas all over. use one of the several modules (CGI.pm and > others) that do this for you. they do it correctly and cover all the > little corner cases. > > uri > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ Tel Aviv, a functional definition: free parking space‐free space. — Shachar Shemesh ( http://blog.shemesh.biz/?p=435 ) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
