Re: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread McDonald Patrick
you need to escape your inner quotes with a backslash like so. print "\n"; Pat - Original Message - From: "Mike Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:01 PM Subject: multiple quotes > How do I

RE: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Murphy, Land
Use single quote marks inside your print statement. for instance print "\n"; Better yet, use CGI instead. HTH -Original Message- From: Mike Smith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/7/2002 1:01 PM Subject: multiple quotes How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) print &

Re: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Mike Smith wrote: > How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) > > print "\n"; print qq(\n); qq() is the generic form of "". You can also use qq{}, qq##, etc. See the perlop page for more details. -- Brett http://www.chapelperil

Re: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:01, Mike Smith wrote: > How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) > > print "\n"; > > Mike Smith try qq (see perldoc perlop) print qq(\n); -- Today is Pungenday the 38th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3168 Kallisti! Missle Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W --

Re: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 7, Mike Smith said: >How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) > >print "\n"; You can either escape the " with a backslash... print "like \"this\"..."; but that gets to look REALLY ugly, REALLY fast. So use a different quoting operator instead: print "xyz"; print 'http://www.

RE: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Hanson, Robert
Two different ways. Use the qq operator or escape the quotes. print qq[\n]; print "\n"; Rob -Original Message- From: Mike Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: multiple quotes How do I get this to work?

multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) print "\n"; Mike Smith -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]