Difference in split funciton parameters

[lonelyplanet999]

Hi,

I'm a newbie of perl language and I would like to ask the differences
in below pieces of code:

1.
read(STDIN, $stuff, $ENV{'CONTENT_L ENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/\&/, $stuff);

2.
read(STDIN, $stuff, $ENV{'CONTENT_L ENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $stuff);

Do they both get a blob of data with length specified by the
CONTENT_LENGTH environment variable then split the name=value pairs
separated by '&' characters ?

Tks!

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Re: Difference in split funciton parameters

lonelyplanet999 wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm a newbie of perl language and I would like to ask the
> differences in below pieces of code:
>
> 1.
> read(STDIN, $stuff, $ENV{'CONTENT_L ENGTH'});
> @pairs = split(/\&/, $stuff);
>
> 2.
> read(STDIN, $stuff, $ENV{'CONTENT_L ENGTH'});
> @pairs = split(/&/, $stuff);
>
> Do they both get a blob of data with length specified by the
> CONTENT_LENGTH environment variable then split the name=value pairs
> separated by '&' characters ?[/color]

Yes.

You know that there is a standard module that can be used for parsing
form data, right?

use CGI;

See http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/

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