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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting %## back to special characters from an HTML form Post 95744 by 98_1LE on Saturday 14th of January 2006 10:01:43 AM
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Converting %## back to special characters from an HTML form
I have an HTML form that sends email to a large list of users one at a time by matching an email address in peoplesoft to their username. It works great, except that special characters are converted to %## format. Is there a library of these I can use to sed them back (yes this is a crappy UNIX shell cgi, bash) to the correct character, or a simple perl script that will do it?
 

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