minton — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:21:55 +0000

Ok, thanks people

The one i was thinking of when I posted this was Vulkens so I will try that out. i really didn't understand the template one so I will leave that to the pro's
Thanks

anti — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:55:03 +0000

It's always a good idea to use templates.

Try to use fast-templates, a ready made module that does everything you need.

For short texts you could use the (already mentioned) "here-document" approach, but that's not very flexible

richjb — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 02:10:59 +0000

I see two answers to your question: 1) A different "method," or 2) a template system.

Answer One:

Try using print qq| |; Using that will make it so you don't have to exscape the " or other such characters.

Example:

print qq|<html>
 <head>
  <title>My Title</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  This is were I place the "body."
 </body>|;

The only catch, you have to exscape a pipe |. To do this, simply type "\|".

Answer Two:

You can use a template. Create a sub routine created "build_html." Example:

sub build_html {
 local ($title, $body) = @_;
 print qq|
  <html>
   <head>
    <title>$title</title>
   </head>
   <body>
    $body
   </body>
  </html>
 |;
}

To use this, just call a subroutine with the $title and $body (or whatever variables ou want to you). Example:

$title = qq|This is my web page's title.|;
$body = qq|This is my web page's body content.|;
&build_html($title, $body);

If you wish for any help to customize answer two's colution to your site, don't hesitate to ask.

Hope that helped.

Richard

Ken Elliott — Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:07:55 +0000

Well you can always have the html file as an external text file.

open FILE "> html.txt";
@lines = ;
close FILE;

foreach $line(@lines) {
print "$line\n";
}

or the way to print formatted html within your script...

print >>"HTML";

HTML

I don't know if the last part is correct. I can't find it on a website and I left my books at home. I can't test perl on this laptop neither...so try it out and if it don't work I am sure someone will correct my post, and I will change it when I get to my books.

VulKen
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