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Re: [MacPerl] Encode string

At 16:33 -0500 08/12/1999, w e b s l a v e wrote:
>I need to encode a string so it's url friendly, replacing spaces with '%20'
>and slashes '/' with '%C4' etc...
>
>I've got this bit that DEcodes...
>
>  $value =~ tr/+/ /;
>  $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
>  $value =~ s/~!/ ~!/g;
>
>But, I'm stuck on how to do it in reverse to ENcode the string...
>
>I'd appreciate any help! (Thanks!)

If you're writing a CGI script using CGI.pm you can use the escape(),
unescape(),  and escapeHTML() functions.

If you're not using CGI.pm (why not? :-) or not writing a CGI script, you
might look at the implementation of these functions within CGI.pm.

- Vicki
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