Assigning '<' & '>' as chars to a variable

2001-07-05 Thread Notabene
Okay, I surrender...what's the trick to assigning the greater-than (<) and the less-than (>) symbols, as characters, to a variable without triggering all sorts of unwanted "Perlish" behavior? I want to do something on the order of: $var1 = 'This is text '; $var2 = 'This is mo

RE: Assigning '<' & '>' as chars to a variable

2001-07-05 Thread Notabene
Original Message- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:41 AM To: Notabene Cc: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: Assigning '<' & '>' as chars to a variable On Jul 6, Notabene said: > $var1 = 'This

RE: Assigning '<' & '>' as chars to a variable

2001-07-05 Thread Notabene
Original Message- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:41 AM To: Notabene Cc: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: Assigning '<' & '>' as chars to a variable On Jul 6, Notabene said: > $var1 = 'This

Repost Form data for user validation / change -- how?

2001-07-20 Thread Notabene
(I orginally posted this in CGI Beginners, but received no response. Perhaps it more rightly belongs here, in the Land of Perl gurus?) I would appreciate some help or pointers for the following CGI / Perl / MS-FrontPage 2000 form validation problem: I am writing an autoresponder which generates

RE: Repost Form data for user validation / change -- how?

2001-07-20 Thread Notabene
cious answer I could actually use, instead? ? John-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Guilherme Pinto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:57 PM To: 'Notabene'; Perl Beginners Subject: RE: Repost Form data for user validation / change -- h

RE: Repost Form data for user validation / change -- how?

2001-07-20 Thread Notabene
ROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:59 PM To: 'Notabene'; Perl Beginners Subject: RE: Repost Form data for user validation / change -- how? To auto-fill a textarea with default text, it's different from text boxes. For input boxes, you can do value=$the_value. However, for tex

RE: Repost Form data for user validation / change -- how?

2001-07-20 Thread Notabene
riginal Message- From: Kuchler, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:33 PM To: 'Notabene'; Perl Beginners Subject: RE: Repost Form data for user validation / change -- how? That's odd. Are you using cgi.pm to generate your HTML or are you doing it with a seri

RE: Repost Form data for user validation / change -- how?

2001-07-20 Thread Notabene
I learned more than a little something in the bargain. Now, if I can only figure out just where to put a rude message in the return form... Thanks. -Original Message- From: Kuchler, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:31 PM To: 'Notabene'; Perl Begi