Escaping '$'

[Guest_imported]

How do I do this?

tHANKS

 

[hmerrill]

Escaping the dollar sign is just like escaping any other character - just put a backslash before it, like:

print "\$var1 = $var1\n";

HTH.
Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.

http://www.missioncriticallinux.com

 

[Guest_imported]

Oh... because I'm making it like $1,000, and it now looks like \$1,000 and it still doesn't work.

Do I have to escape the "," also?

 

[sackyhack]

hmerrill's '\' escape works with a double-quoted string.
You don't need to escape a '$' inside a single-quoted string.

print '$1,000';
print "\n";
print "\$1,000";
print "\n";