On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:50:19AM +0530, Nath, Alok (STSD) wrote:
> Hi,
> Need some help to run this script.
[snip]
> print q("Please select: ",textfield ("flavour", "mint")) ;
[snip]
> What I was expecting is a textbox, instead of this string.
> "Please select: ",textfield ("flavour", "mint")
>
> Can anybody point out what is wrong ?
You're quoting a line twice. The q() syntax is like single-quoting
whatever it contains, so it's roughly equivalent to this:
print '"Please select: ",textfield ("flavour", "mint")' ;
You need to get rid of the q() so that you're not treating everything it
contains as a nonparsed string.
For more details, see the "Quote and Quote-like Operators" section in
the perlop documentation.
You can also check out a tutorial I wrote at PerlMonks a couple years
ago, titled "quotes in Perl". I think it's pretty clear and helpful,
but maybe I'm biased:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=401006
A perhaps more "intuitive" URL for the PerlMonks tutorial is this:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=quotes+in+Perl
That should help somewhat.
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