Add string2id function that is useful in generating HTML id attributes

[deb/packages.git] / lib / Packages / CGI.pm

diff --git a/lib/Packages/CGI.pm b/lib/Packages/CGI.pm
index 9a8584fe6bd51b4cf784ad1dc37d522215ab4e33..b09235273ab4d9e057321f2a9c494287bdf89e09 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Packages/CGI.pm
+++ b/lib/Packages/CGI.pm
@@ -333,6 +333,13 @@ sub printindexline {
 #    return ( $start, $end );
 #}
 
+sub string2id {
+    my $string = "@_";
+    
+    $string =~ s/[^\w]/_/g;
+    return $string;
+}
+
 our ( %url_params, %query_params );
 
 sub init_url {