I don't know the answer, and I suspect no-one else does either. You haven't
given enough information. It's not even clear what programming language each
of these code fragments represents. Certainly, the "^@" is coming from a
place that you haven't told us about.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: himanshu padmanabhi [mailto:himanshu.padmanabhi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 19 February 2009 13:26
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  variable ending with ^@
> 
> Code flow
> 
> "abc.cgi"  has $in{'idx'}.
> 
> abc.cgi->abc.cgi on form .submit->abc.xsl on form submit->xyz.cgi
> redirect->abc.cgi
> 
> "abc.xsl" passes value to next form like "<input value="{$idx}"
> type="hidden" name="idx"></input>" as suggested here.
> 
> I am getting value of $in{'idx'} in final abc.cgi in above 
> cycle.But getting its value as "idx=14^@".
> 
> what is this "^@".I tried with chomp,chop.It still remains.
> 
> -----------------------------
> Regards,
> Himanshu Padmanabhi