Suzanne — Thu, 06 Jul 2000 05:22:15 +0000

Just for reference, double quotes interpret the $variable, and single quotes simply state it.

so...

$variable = "some string";

print '$variable';

prints: $variable

and print "$variable";

prints: some string

Suzanne

minton — Wed, 05 Jul 2000 21:11:33 +0000

It works, all I had to add was the \ in front. Thanks you two.

richjb — Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:25:47 +0000

Use this:

sub writeconfig { 
open (FILE, ">$CONFIGnewspage/config.txt") || die "Could not open file $CONFIGnewspage/config.txt: $!"; 
print FILE qq|\$newspage = "$newspage";\n|; 
print FILE qq|\$wwwnewspage = "$wwwnewspage";\n|; 
print FILE qq|\$nameofnews = "$nameofnews";\n|; 
print FILE qq|\$nameofsite = "$nameofsite";\n|; 
print FILE qq|\$subfont = "$subfont";\n|; 
print FILE qq|\$memfont = "$memfont";\n|; 
print FILE qq|\$subcolour = "$subcolour";\n|; 
print FILE qq|\$memcolour = "$memcolour";\n|; 
close (FILE);
} 

[added]Explination: the above coe shoud work, just make sure that the variables you want to have printed are the ones listed above. The reason why your script printed blank is because you did not exscape the variable, and on trying to find it, it was null.[/added]

Hope that helped. Post anymore questions you may have.

Richard

[Edited by richjb on 07-05-2000 at 04:32 PM]

plebius — Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:21:00 +0000

use \$ instead of $