I'm still working in the dark on this, John. Can I please have a more
detailed description of what the parts of that statement do, so I
understand how to work it into the script? Even better, I might be able
to work specific substitutions with it. Up until now I hav been trying:
$string =~ s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/ge
but this doesn't seem to work with string variables.
John Madden wrote:
I'm trying to create a script that uses data from a URL. Part of the
data is a multi word command containing spaces. The spaces arrive in the
form %20 and I'm attempting to replace them with real ones. The bit of
code relevant to this is below:
There's a perl command that takes care of the query string / post data conversions. Check this out:
$data =~ s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
That'll take care of the whole set of characters.
John
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