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cgiGetValue - Return the value of a CGI variable

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#include <cgi.h>

char *cgiGetValue (s_cgi *parms, const char *name);

Description

This routine returns a pointer to the value of a cgi variable. Encoded characters (%nn) are already decoded. One must not free the pointer.

If multiple fields are used (i.e. a variable that may contain several values) the value returned contains all these values concatenated together with a newline character as separator.

Return Value

On success a pointer to a string is returned. If the variable wasn’t transmitted through CGI or was empty NULL is returned.

Author

This CGI library is written by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>. If you have additions or improvements please get in touch with him.

See Also

cgiGetVariables(3) , cgiGetCookie(3) , cgiGetCookies(3) , cgiDebug(3) , cgiHeader(3) , cgiInit(3) .


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