passing "%20" in a url to Perl via CGI

[Fraser Campbell]

On August 6, 2004 08:44 am, Madison Kelly wrote:

>    I'll be adding the "%25" substitute in now to test. A question
> though; would one of those 'pm' modules do this well:
>
> - I use 'ls' to pass the file names in a directory to perl
> - perl then pushes that file name to a postres db
> - later the file name is pulled back up and then 'rsync' is called using
> that file name.
> - through all of this the filename can be passed to the script over CGI
>
>    I am not too familiar with 'pm' modules I'm afraid I'm not to sure
> how to use them properly yet. Also, would one of these modules help
> ensure that other special characters and possibly unicode characters in
> file names where properly handled, too? Thanks!

use URI::Escape;
$file = uri_escape($file);

Look at the URI::Escape manpage, there will be other modules (perhaps better) 
URI::Escape is just the one that I am familiar with.

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