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jonny
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:34 pm    Post subject: Space in wrong place Reply with quote

I have perlscript and found out that space in wrong place could be fatal.
Here is a pice of code where I print out a form to the browser:

print <<END_OF_TEXT;

...some code

# here there is a space beetwen '= " ' in 'name= "reset" ' statement:

<INPUT TYPE ="reset" name= "reset" value ="Reset the Form">


# and here there is no space beetwen '= "' in 'name="submit"'

<INPUT type ="submit" name="submit" value ="Submit Comment">

..some more code

END_OF_TEXT


When perl has processed the script the browser looks like this:

I get a space after 'name=" ' in name=" reset" making the name value to be wrong. Or 'value' or whatever there is a space in the wrong place in the perl-script.

<INPUT TYPE ="reset" name=" reset" value ="Reset the Form">


this line is processed OK!

<INPUT type ="submit" name="submit" value ="Submit Comment">

Why do I get these space in wrong palce?
Is this a bug or whatever??

Regards

/Jonny
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:17 pm    Post subject: Code example Reply with quote

I have here a complete example of code and the result.
As far as I found out the webbserver is placing a space in wrong place.
Bug or whatever??

/Jonny


#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print PrintHeader();

# here the code is processed and saved to a file, not transferred by the webbserver

open (UTT, ">test.txt");
print UTT &uttForm();
close (UTT);

# here the code is processed and send to the browser by the webbserver.

print &uttForm();

exit;


############################################################################

sub PrintHeader {
return "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
}


sub uttForm
{
local ($title) = @_;

return <<END_OF_TEXT;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>$title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H4><FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http:/cgi-bin/test/store.pl?edit">
<P>Title: <INPUT TYPE ="text" NAME ="name" VALUE ="" size ="35"><BR>
Notes:<BR>
<TEXTAREA NAME =\"comments\" ROWS = 15 COLS = 45></TEXTAREA></P>
<INPUT TYPE ="reset" name= \"reset\" value ="Reset the Form">
<INPUT type = "submit" name="submit" value ="Submit Comment">
</P>
</FORM></H4>

</BODY>
</HTML>
END_OF_TEXT
}


###### end of code #############################

############################################

This is the result from the test.txt file:
All is processed OK.
The space is between the equal sign = and the quotation mark"!

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H4><FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http:/cgi-bin/test/store.pl?edit">
<P>Title: <INPUT TYPE ="text" NAME ="name" VALUE ="" size ="35"><BR>
Notes:<BR>
<TEXTAREA NAME ="comments" ROWS = 15 COLS = 45></TEXTAREA></P>
<INPUT TYPE ="reset" name= "reset" value ="Reset the Form">
=====================|=====
<INPUT type = "submit" name="submit" value ="Submit Comment">
==========|======

</P>
</FORM></H4>

</BODY>
</HTML>



This is the source code from the webbrowser(Mozilla 1.7)
See this under line ===== where wrong spaces are inserted!

The space is placed between and the quotation mark" and the first letter
inside in the string!

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H4><FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http:/cgi-bin/test/store.pl?edit">
<P>Title: <INPUT TYPE ="text" NAME ="name" VALUE ="" size ="35"><BR>
Notes:<BR>
<TEXTAREA NAME ="comments" ROWS = 15 COLS = 45></TEXTAREA></P>
<INPUT TYPE ="reset" name=" reset" value ="Reset the Form">
======================|====

<INPUT type =" submit" name="submit" value ="Submit Comment">
===========|======

</P>
</FORM></H4>

</BODY>
</HTML>
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