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Decoding the Input Data
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<html>
<body>
<form action="index.pl" method=get>
Name: <BR>
<input type="text" size=50 name=name>Salary ($####.##): <BR>
<INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE=30 NAME=Salary>Birth date (mm/dd/yy): <BR>
<input type="text" size=30 name=birthdate><P/>
<input type=submit value="Submit Query">
<INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Reset">
</form>
</body></html>
//File: index.pl
#!c:/perl/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<HTML;
<html><title>Decoding the Input Data</title>
<body>
HTML
print "Decoding the query string";
$inputstring=$ENV{QUERY_STRING}};
print "<B>Before decoding:</B>";
print "<P>$inputstring";
@key_value=split(/&/,$inputstring);
foreach $pair ( @key_value){
($key, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
$value=~s/%(..)/pack("C", hex($1))/ge;
$value =~ s/\n/ /g;
$value =~ s/\r//g;
$value =~ s/\cM//g;
$input{$key}=$value ; # Creating a hash
}
print "<HR>";
print "<P><B>After decoding:</B><P>";
while(($key, $value)=each(%input)){
print "$key: <I>$value</I><BR>";
}
print <<HTML;
<hr>
</body>
</html>
HTML
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