NAME

CGI::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.

This version copyright 2001, Dr James Freeman.

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: jfreeman@tassie.net.au

SEE ALSO

CGI::Simple