Rob Richardson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have a routine named trace() that writes a string to a
: text file. The following two lines:
:
: $user = $userList->GetUser($logname);
: trace("User: $user->LoginName(), $user->FirstName(),
$user->LastName()\n");
:
: give me the following result:
:
: User: User=HASH(0x174c234)->LoginName(),
: User=HASH(0x174c234)->FirstName(), User=HASH(0x174c234)->LastName()
:
: I am losing track of what is a reference to what, and what
: needs to be dereferenced into what, but I don't know why or
: what it is I need to do. I've done similar things elsewhere
: in this application without this problem, but I don't see
: what I'm doing differently.
The problem seems to be in the call to trace(). Functions
(and methods) won't interpolate in quoted strings without the
@{ ... } construct. Try it this way.
trace( sprintf "User: %s, %s, %s\n",
$user->LoginName(),
$user->FirstName(),
$user->LastName() );
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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