Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:42:47PM -0500, Jim Conner wrote: > Perl ignores the white space. Well, most white space anyway. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-23 Thread Jim Conner
It does *not* matter :) $stringc = $stringa .",". $stringb; is the same as: $stringc = $stringa.","$stringb; Perl ignores the white space. - Jim At 19:01 03.22.2002 -0500, K Clark wrote: >would someone tell me whether or not the problem with what the original >post is

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-23 Thread Jim Conner
There is nothing wrong with the line that does the concatenation in sub 'add'. You have a problem somewhere else it seems. What was the exact error again? - Jim At 23:59 03.22.2002 +, Matthew Harrison wrote: >the script is part of a web-based role-playing-game. the line in question >is i

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread John W. Krahn
Matthew Harrison wrote: > > i need to join $stringa to $stringb with a coma in the middle (no > whitespaces). i have tried $ perl -le' $one = "one"; $two = "two"; print $one . "," . $two; print "$one,$two"; print join ",", $one, $two; ' one,two one,two one,two John -- use Perl; program fulf

RE: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Timothy Johnson
Does it have the same error if you change the line to this? $newrec = "$record,$word"; -Original Message- From: Matthew Harrison To: bob ackerman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/22/02 3:59 PM Subject: Re: joining 2 strings the script is part of a web-based role-playing-game

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Matthew Harrison
ichael Fowler > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: joining 2 strings > > > after all this, it was a simple typo, i had accidentally put a comma in > the place of the first period. I am really, really sorry for messing you > guys about like this. > > On Friday 22 Mar 2002 1

RE: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Crook, Richard W
Heh heh! That's OK. Just buy us all a round at some pub when we go across the pond! -Original Message- From: Matthew Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:34 PM To: Michael Fowler Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: joining 2 strings after all this, it

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread John W. Krahn
Matthew Harrison wrote: > > it said scalar found where operator expected. perldoc perldiag [snip] %s found where operator expected (S) The Perl lexer knows whether to expect a term or an operator. If it sees what it knows to be a term when it was expecti

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Matthew Harrison
after all this, it was a simple typo, i had accidentally put a comma in the place of the first period. I am really, really sorry for messing you guys about like this. On Friday 22 Mar 2002 11:59 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:40:26PM +, Matthew Harrison wrote: > > $stringc = $s

RE: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Crook, Richard W
22, 2002 4:00 PM To: bob ackerman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: joining 2 strings the script is part of a web-based role-playing-game. the line in question is in the sub called 'add': #!/usr/bin/perl ###Vars and modules### use CGI qw/:standard/; use CGI::Carp "fatalsToBr

RE: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Crook, Richard W
, March 22, 2002 4:00 PM To: bob ackerman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: joining 2 strings the script is part of a web-based role-playing-game. the line in question is in the sub called 'add': #!/usr/bin/perl ###Vars and modules### use CGI qw/:standard/; use CGI::Carp "

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread bob ackerman
no. extra white space is ignored. works fine. note the original that failed did end with a semicolon. On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 04:01 PM, K Clark wrote: > would someone tell me whether or not the problem with what the original > post is because of $stringa.",".$stringb being unbroken? does

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread K Clark
would someone tell me whether or not the problem with what the original post is because of $stringa.",".$stringb being unbroken? does that matter? as a fledgling, i always pump alot of space in my scripts, but see some of the more advanced replies here being different... ken On Fri, Mar 22, 20

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Matthew Harrison
the script is part of a web-based role-playing-game. the line in question is in the sub called 'add': #!/usr/bin/perl ###Vars and modules### use CGI qw/:standard/; use CGI::Carp "fatalsToBrowser"; use DBI; $action = param('action'); $word = param('word'); $rd1 = param('rd1'); $rd2 = param('rd

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:40:26PM +, Matthew Harrison wrote: > $stringc = $stringa.",".$stringb > > but it says there is a problem. what should it be? That's one way of doing it. What does it say the problem is? Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, S

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread bob ackerman
ngle quotes > > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: joining 2 strings > > > i need to join $stringa to $stringb with a coma in the middle (no > whitespaces). i have t

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread bob ackerman
maybe you could show what is in $stringa and $stringb. show a few lines before and after the line with the error. there isn't anything wrong with the line as it is here. On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 03:51 PM, Matthew Harrison wrote: > the semicolon was in my script i jsut forgot to put in in m

RE: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Jon Riddle
What I am seeing is that you are using the double quote and it should be single quotes -Original Message- From: Matthew Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: joining 2 strings i need to join $stringa to $stringb with a

RE: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Crook, Richard W
02 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: joining 2 strings i need to join $stringa to $stringb with a coma in the middle (no whitespaces). i have tried $stringc = $stringa.",".$stringb but it says there is a problem. what should it be? -- Matthew Harrison Internet/Network Servi

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Matthew Harrison
the semicolon was in my script i jsut forgot to put in in my email. sorry. On Friday 22 Mar 2002 11:51 pm, bob ackerman wrote: > did it say the error was on the line you are showing below, or on the > next line? > i am getting at asking if you really end the line with semicolon or not. > > On Fri

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread bob ackerman
did it say the error was on the line you are showing below, or on the next line? i am getting at asking if you really end the line with semicolon or not. On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 03:46 PM, Matthew Harrison wrote: > it said scalar found where operator expected. > > On Friday 22 Mar 2002 11

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Matthew Harrison
it said scalar found where operator expected. On Friday 22 Mar 2002 11:44 pm, bob ackerman wrote: > what did it say the problem was? > that line is missing a semicolon at end. > > On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Matthew Harrison wrote: > > i need to join $stringa to $stringb with a coma

Re: joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread bob ackerman
what did it say the problem was? that line is missing a semicolon at end. On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Matthew Harrison wrote: > i need to join $stringa to $stringb with a coma in the middle (no > whitespaces). i have tried > > $stringc = $stringa.",".$stringb > > but it says there i

joining 2 strings

2002-03-22 Thread Matthew Harrison
i need to join $stringa to $stringb with a coma in the middle (no whitespaces). i have tried $stringc = $stringa.",".$stringb but it says there is a problem. what should it be? -- Matthew Harrison Internet/Network Services Administrator Peanut-Butter Cheesecake Hosting Services Genstate www.