if(length $string>256){
   # remove trailing spaces
   while (length $string>256 && $string=~m/(?:^\s)*\s+$/){
      $string =~ s/(.*)\s$/$1/;
   }

   # remove beginning spaces
   while (length $string>256 && $string=~m/^\s+[^\s]/){
      $string =~ s/^\s(.*)/$1/;
   }

   # anything else
   if (length $string >256){
      $string = substr($string,0,256);
   }
}
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   $dbh->do(
         "CREATE TABLE $table ("
         . "blah,"
     . "line text UNIQUE,"
     . "col"
         . ");"
      ) or die "Cannot create table: $DBI::errstr";
      $sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO $table VALUES(?,?,?)");
      #$sth->bind_param(2,"$fld2",DBI::SQL_VARCHAR);
      print $fld2; #prints 0002
      $sth->execute($fld1,$fld2,$fld3);
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      $sql = "INSERT INTO $table VALUES('$fld1','$fld2','$fld3')";
      #print $sql . "\n";
      $dbh->do($sql);
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#! /usr/lcl/bin/perl

use DBI;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser carpout);
#use strict;


   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";               # declare messag
+e type
   
   #Run the program 
   _main();


# Subroutine parse_form_data decodes the form information.
# A reference to a variable named request_form is passed to it.
# Request_form is treated as an associate array and filled with
#   key-value pairs sent by the browser.
# Parameters are used if the requestor requires a signature and the 
#   form needs to be resubmitted.  All cgi parameters are lowercase, 
#   all $in params are camelcase
sub _main {
   &parse_form_data (*in);                            # call parse_for
+m_data function
     
   my $cgi          = new CGI();
   
   $in{'User_First'}   =~ s/([\w']+)/\u\L$1/g;
   $in{'User_Last'}    =~ s/([\w']+)/\u\L$1/g; 
   
   _forminfo();

} #end _main()

 
sub parse_form_data {
   local (*FORM_DATA)  = @_;
   local ($query_string, @key_value_pairs, $key_value, $key, $value);

   read(STDIN, $query_string, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

   @key_value_pairs    = split(/&/, $query_string);

   foreach $key_value (@key_value_pairs) {
   
      ($key, $value)   = split(/=/, $key_value);          # break up/s
+tore param and value
      $value           =~ tr/+/ /;                        # convert pl
+uses to spaces
      $value           =~ s/%([\da-fA-F][\da-fA-F])/pack("C", hex($1))
+/eg;  # decode uri encoding

      if (defined($FORM_DATA{$key})) {
         $FORM_DATA{$key} = join (", ", $FORM_DATA{$key}, $value);
      } else {
         $FORM_DATA{$key} = $value;
      }
   }
} # end parse_form_data()



sub _forminfo {
   ...
}
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