[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Joseph: > > Thanks very much for the feedback. Unfortunately for me, > I've been totally swamped with tasks totally unrelated to > Perl. I've had virtually no time to spend on this. I > hope to have time this weekend to look at Perl related > activities (my wife may have other thoughts about that > however :-)) > > Anyway, here is the context of what I was trying to learn > how to do. > > Basically, I wanted to know how to put a receipient's name > into a canned letter. Like this. > > $name = "Joe Blow" > > The canned letter template: > > Dear $name: > > Your are a very nice person. > > After running the program, the letter would be sent like > this: > > Dear Joe Blow: > > You are a very nice person. > > I'll try to cleanup & send the actual code I use for > this. After seeing the actual code, I would be very > interested in getting your expert advice and opinion. If > indeed I'm not doing this in a proper way, I will > certainly want to correct that. > > Thanks again for providing the feedback. I greatly > appreciate your taking the time to help in advancing my > Perl knowledge. I just wish I had more time to spend with > Perl. It's such a fun language ! > > - Stuart
Cool. That started dwning on me when I saw Jan's suggestion. I think usinf the same symbol as used to indicate program variables is the only problem then. Having such distinctive placeholders is definitely a very practical approach. I think Jan did point to an appropriate tool for the task also. As for me, I'm just getting back to the list after two or three weeks in the land of Raw Bits--C programming. I have a backlog of 715 posts to catch up on, but since there were almost 900 backed up yesterday, this at least represents progress. Joseph
