RE: Cannot retrieve empty keys from request using Apache2::Request.param

> How about a little perl string manipulation?
>
> #my $a = 'key1=value1&key2=&key3=value3';
> my $a = 'key1=value1&key2&key3=value3';
>
> my $b = join "&", map { my $c = ($_ =~ m/(\S+)=(\S*)?/o) ? $_ : "$_=";
> $c; } split "&", $a;
>
> print "a= $a\nb= $b\n";

This is not a good idea because of HTML entities and other legal uses of & in the text returned by ->param();


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