Thanks all!
Jeff: Your answer was the one I needed. (duh! I was so tangled in my own
shorts that I forgot to mention the web page connection -- good catch. <g>)
Steve: While I had tried your solution I wasn't seeing it since my test rig
was printing to a web page -- *NOT* doing straight Perl print output to a
screen. I even tried assigning the ASCII code via chr() to a variable --
both w/ and w/o escaping it, but no luck.
Bret: The "Perlish" behavior I was seeing was anything from:
$target's value printing as: This is text<> ; or: This is text;
to:
$target's value printing as: This is textScaler(nnnnnxnn) ## don't remember
the exact numbers shown;
not to mention my paw being slapped for the regular coding transgressions in
between cycles of frustration.
Thanks, again for the quicky response, guys!
John--
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:41 AM
To: Notabene
Cc: Perl Beginners
Subject: Re: Assigning '<' & '>' as chars to a variable
On Jul 6, Notabene said:
> $var1 = 'This is text ';
> $var2 = 'This is more text';
> $target = $var1.'<'.$var2.'>';
The more common technique is
$target = "$var1<$var>";
> This is text <This is more text>
>
>I've tried "escaping" each of the two symbols but with no luck -- so what's
>the trick and what am I doing wrong, here?
You've probably neglected to tell us that you're printing this to a web
browser, where < and > have special meanings (they delimit tags). To get
these characters to display as literals, you'll have to use < and
> instead of < and >.
You can automate that via:
use HTML::Entities;
print encode_entities("He's <that> silly!");
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