Re: [MacPerl] perl line pls

[George Cingolani <gcingo@accesscom.com>]

thanks josh :-)...most helpful!!

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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Josh Gemmell wrote:

> gcingo@accesscom.com,Internet writes:
> >
> >would anyone be kind enough to tell me what is wrong with this line...
> >
> ><blockquote> 
> >print  "$hi{$input{'language'}}, $input{'name'} .
> >$how{$input{'language'}}?\n";
> ></blockquote>
> >
> >it just won't compile no matter how I cut it :-(
> >
> I think that there may be either a Perl interpreter or a web browser
> somewhere that's just as baffled as I am. I took the liberty or rewriting
> it into some code that has the values you're using,
> 
> $input{'name'}     = "Josh";
> $input{'language'} = "canadian";
> $hi{'canadian'}    = "Hey";
> $how{'canadian'}   = "How's it goin', eh";
> print  "$hi{$input{'language'}}, $input{'name'}.
> $how{$input{'language'}}?\n";
> 
> And the result is,
> Hey, Josh.
> How's it goin', eh?
> 
> So the code itself works just fine. The trouble is, I would guess, the
> <blockquote>s. Either they have no place in a perl script or the perl
> script has no place in the HTML code. If you want to include HTML in the
> output, try,
> 
> print  "<blockquote>\n$hi{$input{'language'}}, $input{'name'}. 
> $how{$input{'language'}}?\n</blockquote>";
> 
> -josh
> 


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