Re: FLASH: return vars from Perl to Flash

[Helen Triolo]

Geoff Choo wrote:

> 

> Hi,

> 

> Here's a bit of Perl script that will take a text string and URLencode the

> spaces, control and punctuation characters.

> 

> This code fragment assumes that you have a field variable named "list" in

> our flash movie.

> 

> $string = "This is the string to encode";

> 

> # We URL encode the text string here #

> $string =~ s/(\W)/sprintf("%%%x", ord($1))/eg;

> 

> print "Content-type: text/text\n\n";

> print "list=$string";

> 

Thanks Geoff.  I'll stash that away for the future--I'm sure it'll be

useful (and nothing makes you feel more like a competent programmer than

having a few good complicated-looking regex's around!)  


And Laura, yes you're right about both the /n's being necessary.  I had

thought they wouldn't be -- since aren't they just carriage returns? --

but I tried it again with none and with just one and neither worked.  I

guess whatever looks at the perl expects the content-type-defining line

to end with a real end-of-line.


So thanks to Rebecca and Laura and Geoff for all the good info.


Helen

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