Re: CGI.pm parsing odity

you.did@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello.

With CGI.pm Oo_style coding,
I use a form with GET method, it parses a textfield with name
attribute:
"participant".
I validate that parameter with Perl's substitute and match handlers in
order to make a file in "/tmp/SOMEDIR/" with names like :
"participant.scorefile".
In that file i regulary use the CGI function save() to save the satus
of
the form and it writes away an annoying trainling "=".

If that is the biggest annoyance you face, you are a lucky man indeed.


$]cat /tmp/SCORES/JohnDoe.sorefile
gives this :
participant=JohnDoe
=

Have you bothered to read the documentation for the method you are using?

from perldoc CGI on save():

Both name and value are URL escaped. Multi-valued CGI
parameters are represented as repeated names. A session
record is delimited by a single = symbol. You can write
out multiple records and read them back in with several
calls to new.


That is "$query save(FHANDLE);" right after the participant puts his
name, so, the *wanted* dated is in there but I don't know where Perl
gets that empty form parameter, is it even empty form data ? Is it an
assignment ? Why this trailing "=" sign ?

So that you can store multiple sessions states in one file, just as the
documentation says.

Xho

--
-------------------- http://NewsReader.Com/ --------------------
Usenet Newsgroup Service $9.95/Month 30GB
.