Re: Receiving user input

[Jay Scherrer <suppressed>]

Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 09:23 -0700, Jay Scherrer wrote:
>   
> > I have used "cgi-lib.pl" from <http://cgi-lib.berkeley.edu> for awhile now.
> >     
>
> Please don't use that.  It is outdated and has problems with security
> and with standards compliance.  Use CGI.pm instead.  It's a painless
> transition.  See the CGI.pm docs for information on how to port your
> code.
>
> - Perrin
>
>
>   
Yes, of course CGI.pm is the most up to date module. The question was 
"Anyone have a code snippet of a routine that will parse both POST and 
GET user input and place it into a hash?".  So if we are not to forget 
our predecessors and learn from others examples, then I would submit the 
ReadParse routine from "cgi-lib.pl" as good place to start. 

# ReadParse
# Reads in GET or POST data, converts it to unescaped text, and puts
# key/value pairs in %in, using "\0" to separate multiple selections

Jay Scherrer