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XeNoR

XeNoR

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Jun 1, 2002
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does anyone know how to print a colon?

for example:
print '<head><style>{ font-family:arial;font-size:30px}</style></head>';

clearly, this does not work because of the colon in the text. is there a way to have perl print special characters? help would be appreciated.

-XeNoR-
 
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eee
like this

print ';';
or
print &quot;;&quot;;

a colon is not a character that need &quot;escaping&quot;
example
print &quot;\\&quot;; # will print print &quot;\'&quot;; # will print '
etc

diference between ' and &quot; check this out
#!perl -w
use strict;
my $var = &quot;somevalue&quot;;
print '$var'; # will print $var
print &quot;$var&quot;; # will print somevalue

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so instead of this: print '<style>{font-family:arial;font-size:30px}';

i have to put this: print '<style>{font-family:arial', ';', 'font-size:30px}';

???
 
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I don't understand. This will work just fine:

print '<head><style>{ font-family:arial;font-size:30px }</style></head>';

Why do you say it's not working becuase of the colon?

By the way.
: is a colon.
; is a semi-colon.

Just wanna make sure we are all on the same page.

--jim
 
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Actually, because you have the text that you are printing in single quotes your original print statement will work. When you said &quot;clearly, this does not work&quot; had you actually tried it?

The only character that is special inside single quotes is another single quote (or apostrophe).

jaa
 
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Hmmm. That's the other coast for me. If you ever fly out to the D.C. area, let me know. And of course, bring a parachute. I heard on the news the other day the the crazies have gotten some shoulder-mounted-rocket-launchers into the country. [chills_up_spine]

--jim
 
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