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

[Phillip Mills]

On Aug 6, 2004, at 8:44 AM, Madison Kelly wrote:

> Also, would one of these modules help ensure that other special 
> characters and possibly unicode characters in file names where 
> properly handled, too? Thanks!

I'm not sure of all the fine print, but try 'perldoc URI::Escape'.

Example:
use URI::Escape;
my $escaped = uri_escape("file with embedded %20");
print "$escaped\n";

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