Re: painful but bonehead question

2002-03-05 Thread John W. Krahn
Dru Levin wrote: > > I am a newbie trying to write Perl scripts in Linux environment: > > question is, why is Perl evaluating my " (quotes) as ? (question marks) ? , > i.e. like in a simple string " blah blah blah" It could be that the program you are using to create the file is not using ASCII

RE: painful but bonehead question

2002-03-05 Thread Timothy Johnson
It would help if you gave a better example of what you've done. Can you post your code? -Original Message- From: dru levin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/4/02 6:29 PM Subject: painful but bonehead question I am a newbie trying to write Perl scripts in Linux environment: questi

painful but bonehead question

2002-03-04 Thread dru levin
I am a newbie trying to write Perl scripts in Linux environment: question is, why is Perl evaluating my " (quotes) as ? (question marks) ? , i.e. like in a simple string " blah blah blah" do I have to be in certain shell if using a Linux-based environment. It works fine on my NT box with basic c