img src path in windows

[tmffm]

Before I get into an actual example, perhaps someone would be nice enough to provide a simple example of the syntax for writing to a file using IMG SRC with a full windows path

so, for example

print OUT "<center><img src='C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/File/file.gif'>\n";

does NOT work.

 

[travs69]

Do you have a web server? You are going to have to have the files in the path that the web server knows about. I think if you are going to have spaces in img src they need to be surrounded by double quotes not single.

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[PaulTEG]

your path to the image needs to be relative to the webserver's root directory

<img src=/images/file.gif alt="whatever" title="whatever"> would refer to a file stored in the images subdirectory of the webserver's root directory

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[tmffm]

Not from a server. For internal use only.

I can't even get this thing to print to an HTML page with a simple .jpg file, no dashes, from my desktop.

print OUT4 "<center><img src= 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\RRPphoto.jpg'>\n";

Any idea why this code won't work?

If I can get the syntax to work at this level, I can handle the intricacies of the actual files.

 

[travs69]

I don't think I understand your problem. You can't get it to write to a HTML file?

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[tmffm]

Actually, it turns I can get it write, I just can't view it with Mozilla. The image appears fine when viewed with IE. How do I handle the space between Documents and Settings inside of a print statement?

or just assign it to a variable?

 

[rharsh]

You may need to do some URL encoding to get it to work. Take a look here for an easy way to do it:

http://support.internetconnection.net/CODE_LIBRARY/Perl_URL_Encode_and_Decode.shtml