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Extract a cookie value based on a variable?

rrhill
New User

Jul 2, 2007, 5:53 PM

Post #1 of 2 (16612 views)

Extract a cookie value based on a variable?	Can't Post

I can extract a cookie using a literal has key name:

sub get_cookie {
my $r = shift;
my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->parse($r->header_in('Cookie'));
return $cookies{"test"};
}

But I want to extract the cookie using a variable name rather than a literal key name:

sub get_cookie {
my $r = shift;
my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->parse($r->header_in('Cookie'));
return $cookies{$cookie_name};
}

This isn't working.

KevinR
Veteran

Jul 2, 2007, 8:39 PM

Post #2 of 2 (16610 views)

Re: [rrhill] Extract a cookie value based on a variable? [In reply to]	Can't Post

not sure what your question has to do with mod_perl, but your code looks like it should work OK. Try setting the value of $cookie_name to 'test' and see if it works.

sub get_cookie {
my $cookie_name = 'test';
my $r = shift;
my %cookies = CGI::Cookie->parse($r->header_in('Cookie'));
return $cookies{$cookie_name};
}
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