Perl/Tk and Filehandles

[mgeurts]

I am writing a Perl/Tk program that involves getting a string of data from a text box widget, and then writing that string to a file. Unfortunately, all that gets written to the desired file is "HASH{aa345....}", instead of the actual text stored in the string. How can I get it to where someone could type in a sentence in a text widget, and that sentence be copied to a file?

Thanks in advance for any input...
Mark Geurts

 

[goBoating]

show us some concise code 'hope this helps

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[MikeLacey]

Mark, hi.

Use TextUndo instead and you get these extra methods.

$text->Load($filename);

Loads the contents of the $filename into the text widget. Load() delete the previous contents of the text widget as well as it's undo history of the previous file.

$text->Save(?$otherfilename?)

Save contents of the text widget to a file. If the $otherfilename is not specified, the text widget contents writes the file of $filename used in the last Load() call. If no file was previously Load()'ed an error message pops up. The default filename of the last Load() call is not overwriten by $otherfilename. Mike
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[mgeurts]

Thanks Mike, your suggestion did work. I might come up with some more questions, and you seem to really know what your doin'.

Mark

 

[MikeLacey]

Hmmm, don't know about that goBoating's done more tk work than me...

Glad you're sorted with this issue - come back anytime, they won't all be as easy to fix though <wry smile> Mike
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&quot;Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald.&quot;

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.