Re: Newbie problems with > in a string

2003-12-27 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Rob Dixon wrote: Albert Browne wrote: Thirdly, the test if ($Author ne "") is tidier written as if ($Author) Unless of course $Author is 0 in which case you have changed the logic. I often use 0 as the default user account id on websites that have user registration, in which case empty

Re: Newbie problems with > in a string

2003-12-26 Thread Rob Dixon
Albert Browne wrote: > > I am using the code below in part of a subroutine. It displays ok later in > the routine within a block. > But when I try to use $Meta elsewhere the string appears to be empty. > Further investigation shows the string is ok until it gets to the > > in the string. The stri

RE: Newbie problems with > in a string

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Kreuzer
Try changing $title = $query->param("Title"); to $title = $query->param('Title'); and do the same thing for the owner param Also, if you have an if statement that only executes one line of code when the statement evaluates true, you can do this: $Meta = "\n" if ($title ne ""); IMHO, this is m