use CGI; use HTML::Entities; use URI::Escape; my $q = CGI->new; my $data; my $toggle = initToggle( 1 ); for my $ASCII ( 0 .. 255 ) { # The following is a hexadecimal list of characters that must be encoded # in query strings my $cgi_chars = '\x00-\x29\x2b\x2c\x2f\x3a-\x40\x5b-\x5e\x60\x7b-\xff'; # The following is a hexadecimal list of characters that often have their # HTML character code equivalent used instead of the characters themselves my $html_chars = '\x00-\x2f\x3a-\x40\x5b-\x5e\x60\x7b-\xff'; my $char = chr( $ASCII ); # The actual character my $symbol = encode_entities( $char, $html_chars ); # HTML code for Web page my $escaped = uri_escape( $char, $cgi_chars ); # CGI representation my $html_code = encode_entities( $symbol ); # Re-encode HTML code so that it # displays properly if ( $escaped eq '%20' ) { $escaped .= ' or +' }; # a space may be %20 or a + my @bgcolor = ( '#FFFFFF', '#CCCCCC' ); $data .= $q->Tr( { -align => 'right', -bgcolor => $bgcolor[ &$toggle ] }, $q->td( [ $ASCII < 33 ? ' ' : $symbol, $ASCII, $escaped, $html_code ] ) ); } print $q->header, $q->start_html, $q->table( $data ), $q->end_html; sub initToggle { my $limit = shift; my $count = 0; my $bit = 0; unless ( $limit > 0 ) { die "initToggle() requires a positive argument\n" }; return sub { $bit ^= 1 if $count++ % $limit == 0; } }