On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>
> > I tried to print my email address when it is enclosed in < and > signs but
> > it didn't print anything.
> > The code:
> >
> > my $line;
> > $line= "<orasnita\@yahoo.com>";
> > # I also tried with $line = \<orasnita\@yahoo.com\>";
> > print "$line";
>
> No need for the double quotes (it will try to interpolate the @):
>
> ~$ perl
> $line = '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>';
> print "$line\n";
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ~$
Oh, but if you are doing this on a web page, you should use also < and
> instead of < and >, because the HTML interpreter will see those as tag
delimiters. Better yet, use HTML::Entities::encode. See the perldoc on
HTML::Entities for more details.
But still, don't double quote unless you need to (i.e., you need to
interpolate variables or control characters like \n inside the string).
-- Brett
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