CGI::Simple::Util(3pm)

CGI::Simple::Util3pm

Internal utilities used by cgi::simple module

Usage

    $escaped     = escapeHTML('In HTML you need to escape < > " and & chars');
    $unescaped   = unescapeHTML('&lt;&gt;&quot;&amp;');
    $url_encoded = escape($string);
    $decoded     = unescape($url_encoded);

Overview

CGI::Simple::Util contains essentially non public subroutines used by CGI::Simple. There are HTML and URL escape and unescape routines that may be of some use.

An internal object is used to store a number of system specific details to enable the escape routines to be accurate.

Author information

Original version copyright 1995-1998, Lincoln D. Stein. All rights reserved. Originally copyright 2001 Dr James Freeman <[email protected]> This release by Andy Armstrong <[email protected]>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Address bug reports and comments to: [email protected]

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 3.1–4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9–11
  7. 12
  8. 13

From libcgi-simple-perl 1.282-1~deb13u1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.