passing whitespace question

[Xenocon]

I have a website that lists files in a <select> list. My problem is that when it is passed to my perl CGI program, if a file is more than one work [/home/user/hello goodbye.txt] only the first part of the name is passed [/home/user/hello]. I am fairy new to perl and CGI. Help would be appreciated.
My code is fairly simple, I have tried $query->param, and read(STDIN...)


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[Xenocon]

I should add that this works fine when I have a pre generated html file, but the page with the form is generated from another Perl script, might that be the problem?

Sorry for replying to my own post

 

[Deleted]

the page with the form is generated from another Perl script, might that be the problem?"

Possibly.. make sure that the html syntax used in the <select> matches the <select> syntax used in the pre generated html file.

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[Xenocon]

what syntax? all i have in the perl generated form is
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print "<form method=post action=\"/cgi-bin/view.pl\">";
print "<select name=\"loc\">;
for(@dirlist)
{
print "<option value=$_>$_";
}


the original static form just is a text box that is used to determine the directory.

 

[Xenocon]

thanks for your help, once i removed value=$_ from <option... it worked

 

[Deleted]

Hmm.. not sure what the problem is.. use this function to parse incoming data.

use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;

sub param_all {
        my $input = {};
        foreach my $key ($q->param) {
                my @values = $q->param($key);
                my $value = join (", ", @values);
                $input->{$key} = "$value";
        }
        return $input; # Returns a hashref of params
}

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[PaulTEG]

print "<option value=\"$_\">$_</option>\n";

When the select is passed if there's spaces you'll only get the first atom, unless it's enclosed in quotes

HTH
--Paul


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