How can I fix my malfunctioning transliteration?

mtorbin · Aug 25, 2005

Hey all,

I wrote the following transliteration:

$fullUnit =~ tr/ /%20/;

However, the %20 always gets turned into $. Any ideas why?

- MT

PaulTEG · Aug 25, 2005

Is that twenty for space or two-OH, as in OHIO?

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duncdude · Aug 25, 2005

Code:

$fullUnit =~ s/ /%20/g;

Kind Regards
Duncan

mtorbin · Aug 26, 2005

Duncan,

Thanks. On that same note, I'm having the WORST problem with this portion of code:

print "<body onLoad=delayDownload(\"$fileName\")>";

It's creating this (if you were to view the source):

<body onLoad=delayDownload("Internal dscrp to FIX RM.xls)>

As you can imagine, JS is screaming at me about the missing " but I can't seem to get it to recognize the one I've escaped.

Any ideas?

- MT

duncdude · Aug 26, 2005

a shot in the dark... have you chomped $fileName ?

and what happens if you print "--" . $fileName . "--";

Kind Regards
Duncan

PaulTEG · Aug 26, 2005

print "<body onLoad=delayDownload('$fileName')>";

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mtorbin · Aug 26, 2005

Now see, I tried all of that, but perl vomitted it back. Here is the solution I finally found that produces NO errors with JS or Perl:

print qq(<body onLoad="delayDownload('$fileName')">);

Thanks guys and gals!

- MT

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How can I fix my malfunctioning transliteration?

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