On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:56:39PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Also I don't think:
>
> > print "<form name="a_form">\n";
> > print "<select name="pull_my_finger" size=1>\n";
>
> is not properly formed (unless a_form and pull_my_finger are function names
> (even then I don't know if it would work)). I think you may want:
>
> print q[<form name="a_form">]."\n";
> or
> print '<form name="a_form"'."\n";
D'oh! Jay's right, the double quotes in the HTMl need to be escaped. Besides
the two forms above,
print "<form name=\"a_form\">\n";
will also do the trick. See perldata(1), under "Scalar value constructors"
for more that you even wanted to know about how to quote strings.
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