RE: parsing char '&' in URL

[Kong, Alan]

I used to convert the '&' to hexadecimal characters following the '%' character, and then translate it back using hex() function.

 

Something like this:

$value =~ s/%([\d0-9A-Fa-f][\dA-Fa-f])/pack ("C", hex($1))/eg;

-----Original Message-----
From: Arijit Banik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 7:58 AM
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Subject: parsing char '&' in URL

Hi,

 

I am having the following issue in my project.

Basically we have a perl based application in which we pass value from one page to another using URL.

In any page we fetch the value of a particular parameter using Q Param.

Now the problem is that 2 values are separated using an ampersand in URL, so if the value of a particular parameter has ampersand in it ( for eg value = abc&def ) then it gets truncated and the value fetched is not proper( for the above example we will only get value = abc).

This behaviour is undesired and i need to extract the complete value(value = abc&def).      

 

In case if any of you have worked on such an issue, please let me know the approach taken.

 

Thanks,

Arijit Banik                   

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