Continuation and Concatination

[rhnewfie]

Is there a way to concatenate output to a file and use continuation characters to make my vode mre readable?? Right now I have this:

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n ";
print OUTPUT "$contents{'firstname'}\n";
print OUTPUT "$contents{'lastname'}\n";

which puts everything on a separate line but I want everything on one line (there's a lot more field values to output). I was wondering if there is anything like:

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n ";
print OUTPUT "$contents{'firstname'} & _
print OUTPUT "$contents{'lastname'}\n";

or something similar

thanks
RHNewfie There are 3 Types of People in the World
Those Born to Think Logically
Those that can Learn to Think Logically
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[tsdragon]

The only thing that's making each item print on a separate line is that you're using text/plain, and each line ends with a linefeed (\n). If you don't want them printed that way, just remove the \n from all but the last item, and put spaces or some other character in their place. Example:

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n ";
print OUTPUT "$contents{'firstname'}  ;
print OUTPUT "$contents{'lastname'}  ";
print OUTPUT "$contents{'city'}  ";
print OUTPUT "$contents{'lastname'}\n";

Note: DO NOT change the content type line! Tracy Dryden
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[missbarbell]

Alternatively you can also write your code as:

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n ";
print OUTPUT "$contents{'firstname'}".
"$contents{'lastname'} ".
"$contents{'city'} ".
"$contents{'lastname'}\n";

as the "." character is the concatenation character, that I think you were after. Note that you don't need to add the "print OUTPUT" to the beginning of subsequent lines.

HTH,
Barbie.
Leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers

http://birmingham.pm.org

 

[tsdragon]

Or, you can do it with just two print statements, like this:

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n ";
print OUTPUT "$contents{'firstname'}  $contents{'lastname'}  $contents{'city'}  $contents{'lastname'}\n";

That last line is all on one line, no matter how TT shows it. Lines of code in perl can be quite long if you need them to be. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.