Problem defining a string

[AndyGroom]

Hi,

How do I make this line syntactically correct?

$imageHTML = "<img WIDTH=975 HEIGHT=731 border=0 alt='Right-click here and choose Save' src='$server$celebid1024x768.jpg'>";

I guess the combination of apostrophes and speechmarks is confusing the compiler, so how do you include an apostrophe into a string?

Also, will the fact that I'm including $celebid followed immediately by 1024 be an issue? (ie. placing a number immediately after a variable)

Thanks for any help, I'm new at this!


- Andy
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[audiopro]

Hi Andy
I have put your code on my server and all is OK.
What is your error?
Keith

 

[Rieekan]

Try this. It's just a small change to your code that may help:

$imageHTML = qq(<img WIDTH="975" HEIGHT="731" border="0" alt="Right-click here and choose Save" src=") . $server . $celebid . qq(1024x768.jpg">);

- Rieekan

 

[vego]

It would be better to use something like below, because if you were using strict mode, compilation would fail due to the fact that there is no variable packaged as $celebid1024x768

my $server = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://my.com/';[/URL]
my $celebid = 'judy';
my $size = '1024x768.jpg';

my $imageHTML = "<img WIDTH=975 HEIGHT=731 border=0 alt='Right-click here and choose Save' src='$server$celebid$size'>";

 

[vego]

you beat me to it, Rieekan

 

[AndyGroom]

Thanks guys for all the help, I mixed and matched your answers and came up with this:

$imageHTML = "<img WIDTH=975 HEIGHT=731 border=0 alt='Right-click here and choose Save' src='$server$celebid" . "1024x768.jpg'>";

The compiler didn't seem to like the '1024' coming immediately after the variable.


- Andy
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[Mephansteras]

Another way to deal with variables in the middle of a word is to to do something like this:

src='${server}${celebid}1024x768.jpg'>

which will let perl know what the variable names you are using are.