UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Simple perl question

Hello all,

I'm reading in a variable called $Notice.

$Notice = q(Hello $Name);

Once $Notice has been set, how can I get that string interpolated so that the string will be "Hello Billy"?

Thanks

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Billy Bandit
Bandit Boys

Change the q to qq

--mark

I would but I can't do anything about that line. It has to remain as

$Notice = q(Hello $Name);

Can I somehow go through each character in $Notice and copy it to a new string and then interpolate the new string?

Or can I say print $Notice and redirect the output to a new string?

Any tips on the syntax to do this?


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Billy Bandit
Bandit Boys

Why can't that line be changed?

--mark

I'm trying to add another field into the General Settings. Everything in that textarea gets assigned to the string $YourNotice. This information is stored into the UltBB.setup file as

UltBB.setup is one of the required files for Ultimate.cgi

I *believe* that $YourNotice gets interpolated (if it is within qq) at the point of the require statement in Ultimate.cgi. At this point, $TableColorStrip and $TheColSpan don't have values so $YourNotice is interpolated with blanks instead of values. Then when I try to print $YourNotice later on in Ultimate.cgi, I get a string that has blanks.

If I specify $YourNotice to be within a single q in UltBB.setup, there is no interpolation at the require line in Ultimate.cgi. But then I want it to be interpolated later on when I've defined $TableColorStrip and $TheColSpan.

I hope this makes sense. Let me know if I'm thinking about it correctly.

Thanks!

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Billy Bandit
Bandit Boys

Why not just set the $Notice variable after the values are set properly?

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