RE: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-12 Thread Edvaldo Barbosa Guimar�es
esday, May 11, 2004 11:44 AM To: 'Jan Eden'; Perl Lists Subject: RE: Escaping quotes in variable content Try this: -Original Message- From: Jan Eden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 03:59 PM To: Perl Lists Subject: Escaping quotes in variable content Hi all, how

RE: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-12 Thread jon
> print "http://www.somewhere.com\";>\n"; > print "value=\"$frage_text\" />\n"; > print "\n"; This wasn't really the question, but... If you have to write html within perl, use qq( ) instead of "". It's a lot easier to read, and much less error prone. ie, print qq( http://www.somewhere.com"

RE: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-11 Thread Jan Eden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11.05.2004: >> print "http://www.somewhere.com\";>\n"; >> print " > value=\"$frage_text\" />\n"; >> print "\n"; > >This wasn't really the question, but... >If you have to write html within perl, use qq( ) instead of "". >It's a lot easier to read, and much less error

RE: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-11 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
helps Anyone reading the archive, please don't do this. escapeHTML or HTML::Entities should do very well. http://danconia.org > > > -Original Message- > From: Jan Eden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 May 2004 04:21 PM > To: David Dorward; Perl Lists >

RE: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-11 Thread Ash Singh
omewhere.com\";>\n"; print " \n"; print "\n"; I hope this helps Regards Ash. -Original Message- From: Jan Eden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 04:21 PM To: David Dorward; Perl Lists Subject: Re: Escaping quotes in variable content Hi Dav

RE: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-11 Thread Ash Singh
Try this: -Original Message- From: Jan Eden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 03:59 PM To: Perl Lists Subject: Escaping quotes in variable content Hi all, how can I escape quotes within a variable's content? I use the following directive to fill an HTML form: Unfortun

Re: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-11 Thread Jan Eden
Hi David, David Dorward wrote on 11.05.2004: >On 11 May 2004, at 14:58, Jan Eden wrote: >>how can I escape quotes within a variable's content? I use the >>following directive to fill an HTML form: >name="frage_text" size="100" value="$frage_text" /> Unfortunately, >>if $frage_text contains a doub

Re: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-11 Thread David Dorward
On 11 May 2004, at 14:58, Jan Eden wrote: how can I escape quotes within a variable's content? I use the following directive to fill an HTML form: Unfortunately, if $frage_text contains a double quote, the browser will stop displaying the string at that point. I tried to escape the quotes in a P