Need help in escaping the character "#" from the url

Dear All,

I am facing a problem in escaping the character "#" from the url. I am working in Mason framework now which uses Perl, HTML and Javascript.

What I really want is to escape the character "#" from the value assigned to a variable. As this value gets appended to the url, I am not getting the correct and expected values.

Eg: Suppose $value = "My#Group";

Here I want to escape the character # so that the variable $value contains the value "My#Group" instead of "My" as Perl considers the character # as the starting of comments and comments whatever is there after that.

Moreover the value of this variable gets appended to the previously existing url and as Perl treats # as commenting character, it is not considering the values after # in the url.

I have used URI::Escape::uri_escape() and HTML::Entities::encode_entities() methods but not able to get the solution.

Please help me in this.

Thanks in advance.

re: Need help in escaping the character "#" from the url

If I understand you correctly, you want to be able to include the '#" symbol in a variable.

re: Need help in escaping the character "#" from the url

The # symbol is not considered a comment in the context it's being used. There should be no problem to have a # symbol in a URL.

re: Need help in escaping the character "#" from the url

Dear Kevin

When I tried to copy the url in the address bar and pasted it in an editor, the text which is after the character # in the url appears to be commented when the file view is Perl.

Eg; In EditPlus, if the file view type is perl and I pasted the url in the editor, the text after # appears to be commented.

re: Need help in escaping the character "#" from the url

Well, thats an editor. It may depend on how you view it in the editor, but a # in a single or double-quoted string is just a literal #, it is not a comment.

re: Need help in escaping the character "#" from the url

Thanks for the reply.