Re: How do you pass a variable that contains a % character in it to the RPG program

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think CGIDEV2 has an encode() function you'd want to pass the input through...

Charles

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc.
<mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You need to encode it when you create the url so that
>
> .Program.pgm?mode=view&key=freight%&id=k3
>
> is encoded as
>
> .Program.pgm?mode=view&key=freight%25&id=k3
>
> Mark Murphy
> STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
> mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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> To: "'Matt Lavinder'" <mlavinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: "Darryl Freinkel"
> Sent by: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 09/19/2012 04:16PM
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] How do you pass a variable that contains a % character    in it to the RPG program
>
> I understand this part, however, I pass 3 parameters example:
>
>
>
> .Program.pgm?mode=view&key=freight%&id=k3
>
>
>
> This is a CGIDEV2 program.
>
>
>
> The program reads mode correctly but it gets confused with key and ID, which
> it sees as 1 field. I see the value for key = freight%#@$ where #@$ is some
> hex value. As a result, I cannot get to use the URLESCSEQ or did I get this
> wrong?
>
>
>
> How do I set this in the HTML HREF statement?
>
>
>
> Darryl Freinkel | Assignment 400 Group, Inc.
>
> Tel: 770.321.8562 ext 111 | Fax 770.321.8562
>
>
>
> From: Matt Lavinder [mailto:mlavinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:54 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Cc: Darryl Freinkel
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] How do you pass a variable that contains a % character
> in it to the RPG program
>
>
>
> The percent sign is a special character on a URL so you need to "encode".
> Every percent needs to be replaced with %25.
>
>
>
> Since you're replacing an actual percent sign it makes it a little
> confusing.  The % in %25 has nothing to do with your data. On a URL, % is a
> way to indicate to the browser/server that next 2 positions of the contain
> the hex code of a character.  The hex code for the percent sign is 25.
>
>
>
> So if your data was "my%percent" and it was passed on a URL, it would need
> to be encoded "my%25percent".
>
>
>
> If your text was "my percent", it would need to be encoded "my%20percent",
> as 20 is the character code of space.
>
>
>
> So you will use % when encoding special characters for a URL, which is why
> your URL doesn't work.
>
>
>
> If you are using CGIDEV2 and have a version released this year, it has a new
> procedure called UrlEscSeq to make encoding URL parameters easy.
>
>
> D inpString       s          32767    varying
> D outString       s          32767    varying
>  *
> C                   eval      outString=UrlEscSeq(inpString)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Darryl Freinkel
> <dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have a situation in a web program where the percent sign is in fields in a
> table. The fields display normally when rendered to the browser, but when I
> try to use the field to go to an update page as a passed parameter,  the
> system/RPG gets confused with the % sign and does not recognize it as a
> valid character in the parameter.
>
>
>
> I cannot remember how to encapsulate or wrap these field values so that I
> can read them normally in the RPG program.
>
>
>
> How do we get around this type of error?
>
>
>
> TIA
>
> Darryl Freinkel
>
> Assignment 400 Group, Inc.
>
> Tel: 770.321.8562 ext 111 | Fax 770.321.8562 | 2247 La Salle Dr, Marietta
> GA, 30062, USA | PO Box 72556, Marietta, GA 30007-2556
>
>
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