Form Output Percent Encoding

[wyshmasta]

In the few years I have been building forms and perl scripts to parse and utilize them, I have never come accross this problem before.

When a textfield or textarea contains a quotation mark " or special character, it's encoded with percents (%22) and displayed on the page that way and shows up in the email that way.

How do I get around this?

The form input values are being parsed and placed into simple scalar variables. I then use the variables where needed to display the input.

 

[Kirsle]

use URI::Escape;

my $str = "hello world!!!";

my $uri = uri_escape ($str);
print $uri; "hello%20world%21%21%21"

print uri_unescape ($uri); "hello world!!!";

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[wyshmasta]

Thanks!

I already figured out my main mistake. When parsing the input from the form.. I forgot to include the following:

/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

I usually include it after:

$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])

It was a bonehead mistake that I luckily caught late.

Thanks!

 

[KevinADC]

join the 21st century and use the CGI.pm module to parse your form input.

- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!