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Re: Re: Retrieving value from HTML->Javascript->Perl

by dws (Chancellor)
on Jul 07, 2002 at 00:30 UTC ( [id://179903]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Retrieving value from HTML->Javascript->Perl
in thread Retrieving value from HTML->Javascript->Perl

Should read:
win=window.open("cgibin/getPrice.pl?textBox='+text+' ","width=250,height=240")

Nope. Not unless the CGI expects the string to arrive with single quotes around it. I suspect that the right thing to do here is to URL-encode 'textBox', via 

win=window.open("cgibin/getPrice.pl?textBox=" + escape(text),
                "width=250,height=240")

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Re: Re: Re: Retrieving value from HTML->Javascript->Perl
by TexasTess (Beadle) on Jul 07, 2002 at 00:52 UTC
    I've just written some code almost exactly like this..but it's at work and I'm at home..and my brain is fried so can't remember the EXACT syntax I used however....

    I've found that when trying to use quotes inside a quoted string the CGI converts the ' nicely...but leave the " in and it screws it up...ALSO shouldn't there be a "+" on either side of the variable?
    Texas Tess
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