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tamt
newbie

Jun 21, 2001, 5:47 PM

Post #1 of 2 (601 views)

# and "	Can't Post

I editing a script that will output HTML.

How can I get the script to ignore " and # that I type and take them as text to output in HTML rather than part of the pl script.

I am trying to do something like this:

print "<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFF00" TEXT="#FF0000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#FF00FF">\n";

but the script is taking the "# as being th epl script

mhx
Enthusiast / Moderator

Jun 21, 2001, 8:51 PM

Post #2 of 2 (597 views)

Re: # and " [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi!

Check this out, it's called heredocs:

Code

print <<'END'; 
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFF00" TEXT="#FF0000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#FF00FF"> 
END

You have to assure that there are no extra whitespaces before the terminating END. This solution is best suited if you have long text.
For short text (like this one) you can also use the quoting operator qq:

Code

print qq(<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFF00" TEXT="#FF0000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#FF00FF">\n);

There's another solution, but it's full of backslashes:

Code

print "<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FFFF00\" TEXT=\"#FF0000\" LINK=\"#0000FF\" VLINK=\"#FF00FF\">\n";

Anyway, if your script should output HTML, you should think of using the CGI modules. If you don't know them, type perldoc CGI at your shell / command prompt.
Hope this helps.

-- Marcus

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