From 147a3ae4c390dfc186f25b0aba267d7ff23b2151 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: paul <paul@plutz.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:41:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] documentation fo STORE function

svn path=/trunk/; revision=64
---
 files.sh | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/files.sh b/files.sh
index 6c459c5..bf8b7b9 100755
--- a/files.sh
+++ b/files.sh
@@ -27,8 +27,14 @@ STORE(){
   # Store fields from a HTTP GET or POST string in a file
   # usage: STORE "${QUERY_STRING}"
   #    or: STORE "$(head -n $HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH)"
+  # backslashes and newline characters will be escaped in field values,
+  # the escape symbol is a backslash
+  # hexadecimal character descriptions (%00 - %FF) will be expanded
+  # the + character will be converted to [space]
+  # one line in the output corresponds to exactly one field, so you can
+  # use grep to filter which fields of a query should be stored
   printf "$(
-  printf '&%s' "$@" \
+  printf '%s' "$@" \
   | sed -r ':X; $bY; N; bX; :Y;
             s;\+; ;g; s;(\\|5[Cc]);\\\\\\\\;g; s;(\n|%0[Aa]);\\\\n;g; s;(^|&)([^=]+)=;\1\2:;g; s;&;\n;g;
             s;^\n+;;; s;$;\\n;; s;\n+;\n;g;
-- 
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