On 10/4/01 10:20 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm not really clear on how PERL works when writing HTML.
>
> when writing to a console, you simply use \n to move to the next line
> but using the same code in a browser I get everything on the same line.
>
> is there a way that when writing to HTML, the \n gets converted to <br>
> or
> do you have to explicitly print out every <br>?
>
> and one more question, here is a piece of my program
>
>
> use Win32::ODBC;
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "<HTML>\n";
> print "<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>\n";
>
> $DSN = "WIP";
> #print "Opening database...\n";
> if (!($db = new Win32::ODBC($DSN))){
> print "Error connecting to $DSN\n";
> print "Error: " . Win32::ODBC::Error() . "\n";
> exit;
> }
Use HERE DOCS -
print <<_HereIBe;
Content-type: text/html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
...
HereIBe
Also - are you checking to see if there are security/file premissions errors
or that the file is not already OPNE?
HTH;
-Sx-
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