thanks all for your great help...:-)))) g http://www.accesscom.com/~gcingo/gcingo/home.html http://www.accesscom.com/~gcingo/4db/4db1.html On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Mark T. Johns wrote: > > > [snip] > > > would anyone be kind enough to tell me what is wrong with this line... > > > > <blockquote> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ HTML is not Perl > > > print "$hi{$input{'language'}}, $input{'name'} . > (assuming hi is a function?) > > > $how{$input{'language'}}?\n"; > > </blockquote> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ HTML is not Perl > > > > it just won't compile no matter how I cut it :-( > > > > I suspect this may be more like what you need: > > $tmp_hi = hi($input{'language'}); > $tmp_how = how($input{'language'});print qq[ > <blockquote> > $tmp_hi, $input{'name'} . > $tmp_how ? > ]; > > HTH > PS: Get the Blue Camel Book from O'Reilly ( www.ora.com ) , and if you _are_ > using MacPerl, 'MacPerl: Power and Ease' from PTF ( www.ptf.com ) > > -Mark > > Mark T. Johns - Unix/Perl/Internet - Faxon, A Dawson Company > Work Home > Email: mark.johns@dawson.com mark.johns@usa.net > WWW: http://38.219.86.21/ http://www.netcom.com/~johnsms/ > ICQ: #15881989 #17834280 > ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch