Re: Perl and bad characters - Solved!

I found the simple “append” solution I was looking for on stackoverflow.com: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21718486/need-to-add-new-data-to-json-array-in-perl Thank you all again for the help! I’ve

Re: Perl and bad characters - Progress!

As per the advice given I took a different route and used LWP to get and put the document. And I’m going the ditch the building of the JSON like so: my $returnJSON = qq`{"_id": "$_id", "_rev": "$_rev", "title": "$title", "subtitle": "$subtitle", "content": "$content", "docType": "text",

Re: Perl and bad characters

On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, at 07:24, Bill Stephenson wrote: > I’ve been working on a “comments” feature for my “CherryPC blog”. > > I don’t want readers to have to make a user account to comment so I’m > wanting to use a perl script on the server side that has the user > credentials in the $url variable

Re: Perl and bad characters

The internal representation of character strings in Perl-5 is not identical to UTF-8 or UTF-X, although they both may occur in the same string variable. There is no automatic conversion; the "use utf8;" pragma is only to enable Perl-5 source code written in UTF-8 (see "perldoc utf8").

Re: Perl and bad characters

Hi Bill. You need to escape the characters and unescape them again when you retrieve them from the server. What you should do is something like this: use JSON; use HTTP::Request::Common; my $result = PUT $url, Content_Tipe => 'application/json', Content => encode_json($data_structure); My

RE: Perl and bad characters

The last line is you taking user input and putting it into a shell argument without escaping. Use a real HTTP library so that you don’t get exploited by a robot. Does this still persist if you use a real HTTP library? From: Bill Stephenson