Hmmm.. ref:CGI perl module
It seems that the 'standard' way to parse URL's in the later versions of the CGI perl module is to split name=value pairs by a semi colon rather than the good ol' ampersand.
I don't have a problem with this (in fact it looks pretty) - but it seems that PC users do.
Whilst the scripts are fine with it, if you cut n' paste it to use as a link, it always chops after the first semicolon (often bringing up an ISE).
Anyone come across this before? I really don't want to have to go back through all the scripts and swop back to the ampersand - ecpecially if it's being phased out.
What is Mr Stein thinking...
my $friends = qq[=:Jilly , Andrew , Peter & Harry:=];
print &welcome($friends), "2"; my @home;
sub welcome{my $s=shift; $s=~s{^(=\(.+?)(\:=)$}
{$_=$2;@home=split/[&,]/;}esgx;$friends= join'me',@home;
$friends=~s{(\A|\S|\s+)([A-Z]).+?(\s|\Z)}{$2}sge;my$c=-1;
$friends=~s{(me|\Z)}{++$c;@_=(qw|ust nother erl acker|);qq!$_[$c] !;}eg; $friends}
Mark Hensler posted this at 23:21 — 10th January 2001.
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semicolon?
where did you hear that?
I can't imagine that 'they' would phase out &.... especially after how many websites are coded with it!?!
Matt@Ikonboard posted this at 10:22 — 11th January 2001.
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Believe it or not, it's true. Take a peek inside the CGI.pm - from version 2.7(?) below the $USE_SEMICOLON_PARAM was always switched to '0' (off).
In recent distributions it's switched on by default. It's in the init_globals routine.
It's definately happening. The CGI module can still handle ampersands, but the semi colon is taking over. I've heard the buzz for a while.
my $friends = qq[=:Jilly , Andrew , Peter & Harry:=];
(.+?)(\:=)$}
print &welcome($friends), "2"; my @home;
sub welcome{my $s=shift; $s=~s{^(=\
{$_=$2;@home=split/[&,]/;}esgx;$friends= join'me',@home;
$friends=~s{(\A|\S|\s+)([A-Z]).+?(\s|\Z)}{$2}sge;my$c=-1;
$friends=~s{(me|\Z)}{++$c;@_=(qw|ust nother erl acker|);qq!$_[$c] !;}eg; $friends}
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