Formatting url encoded string back to html

[maslett]

Hi all, great forum btw.

I have a textarea input box - when I fill it in as, say:

line 1

line 2

line 3

my perl script receives it as an url encoded string such as

line+1%0D%0A%0D%0Aline+2%0D%0A%0D%0Aline+3

This is fine but I need to write it as one record into a mysql database and keep the html formatting, ie.

line1<br><br>line2<br><br>line3

Have checked the archives but no joy. Am also a bit new to this Perl malarky

Cheers,
Matt

 

[MOrac]

A fast, dirty routine:

sub unescape {
  local ($_) = @_;
  tr/+/ /;
  s/%([0-9a-fA-F]{2})/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
  return $_;
}

 

[ishnid]

Alternatively, you can use the unescape() function in CGI.pm

 

[maslett]

Thanks guys! Worked a treat.

Was going to ask another dumb question but just remembered the <pre> tag in time - lol

Thanks again.