• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• AUTHOR INFORMATION
• SEE ALSO

NAME

CGI::Simple::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI::Simple module

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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 <jfreeman@tassie.net.au> This release by Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>

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: andy@hexten.net

SEE ALSO

the CGI::Simple manpage