Question

I have a perl script that I am running from a browser. I’m passing query variables to it, but the query variables are showing up like johndoe%40test%2Ecom instead of [e-mail]

I would like to debug the variables to see how they are showing up in the beginning of the script.

In PHP it would be when accessing the url:

http://localhost/dump-variables.php?foo=1&bar=2&bis=johndoe%40test%2Ecom

The PHP script would include this code:

header('Content-type: text/plain');
print_r($_GET);

And the result would be:

Array
(
    [foo] => 1
    [bar] => 2
    [bis] => [e-mail]
)

Perl version : 5.010001

Important Note

I don’t have any special access (root / sudo) on the system I’m working on – so modules may have to be included via source…

Answer 1

You’ve tagged this CGI, so I’ll first suggest using something more efficient.

But if you are going to use CGI, and assuming the use of CGI.pm, then (from the CGI.pm docs):

use CGI;
use Data::Dump qw/ddx/;
my $q = CGI->new();
print $q->header('text/plain');
my %params = $q->Vars;

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; # had to add this

ddx \%params;