Re: Script Question

Use double quotes around your display string.  Perl converts variables
inside double quotes, but not in single:

"This is my $name."

To simple record the string for later evaluation, your format is fine:

$text = 'This is my $name.';

To convert variables that are part of a string variable, try eval():

 <TEXTAREA NAME="text" ROWS="10" COLS="50">eval($text)</TEXTAREA>

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----- Original Message -----
From: M Lessar Jr <rfd246(at)bigfoot.com>
To: HTML GUILD <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 1:31 PM
Subject: Script Question


Hello,

I am writing a program and in a section of the program I have it set so that
they can edit a certain text.

Now I have setup the text as 1 large scalar,

but inside the scalar I want it to show other scalars.

I have yet to figure this out,

ex;

I have a name that I want to show up everytime in the text where the scalar
is called

$text = 'This is my $name.';

$name = 'Mike';
(please remeber this is only a sample not the actual script)

yet when I were to view it in the editing portion of the script It shows

This is my $name.

It does not convert the scalar.
I am using an example:

sub edit {
require 'variables.pl';
etc, etc,

<TEXTAREA NAME="text" ROWS="10" COLS="50">$text</TEXTAREA>

etc, etc,

}

Is this posible? if so how?
any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Mike Lessar

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