I'm trying to find a way to trap bad item numbers. I want to parse the
parameter "itemid=" and then everything up to either an "&" or end-of-string.
A good item number will contain only ASCII letters, numbers, dashes, and
underscores and may terminate with a "&" or it may not (see samples below).
The following string should test negative in the regex below:
my $QUERY_STRING = 'itemid=AT18C&i_AT18C=1';
but a string containing "itemid=AT18/C" should test positive, since it has a
slash.
I can catch a single bad character and get it to work, e.g.
if ( $QUERY_STRING =~ m| itemid= .*? [/]+? .*? &? |x ) {
but I'd like to do something like this instead to catch others:
if ( $QUERY_STRING =~ m| itemid= (?: .*? [^a-zA-Z0_-]+ .*? ) &? |x ) { ...
Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. I've read perlretut, but can't
see the answer. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Frank
Here are a couple of test strings:
'itemid=AT18C&i_AT18C=1&t=main.htm&storeid=1&cols=1&c=detail.htm&ordering=asc'
'c=detail.htm&itemid=AT18C'
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