HTML form coding problem

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005, David A. Bandel wrote:
>Regurgitating the prose of Bill Campbell Bill Campbell
><linux-sxs at celestial.com> on Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:23:21 -0700: begin  
>
...
>|I think you're running into an HTML standard in which is encodes
>|many ``non-standard'' ASCII characters to their hex equivalent.
>
>exactly.  The # is reserved.  Nevertheless, I need it to go into the
>URL bar unchanged.

You got me there.  I doubt that there is any way to do that, much
less one that wouldn't be browser specific.

>|
>|What tools are you using to process the form?  I think most of
>|the standard perl/python/php tools have the ability to map these
>|back to ascii.
>
>Perl is doing the form processing, or at least, it's coded in Perl.
>Code is here: http://www.pananix.com/calcs.txt

It's been at least ten years since I handled CGI stuff manually.
How does the text come into your script (e.g. are you seeing a
``#'' character or the ``%23'' hex?

If it's hex, I think you can convert this with something like:

	($fixedval = $rawval) =~ s/%([0-9a-f]{2})/hex(\1)/gio;

Bill
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