New line & print problem

[Guest_imported]

I started with the first script which returned the
form albeit in one long line.

print messtxt ($lastname);
print messtxt ($firstname);

The next, which I am told should return the form with each
result on a new line. However it returns a blank form.

print "messtxt: $lastname\n";
print "messtxt: $firstname\n";

Can anyone help

Wayne C

 

[goBoating]

a little more context would help.... ...a wild guess follows.....
Is this going to a browser?, HTML?? If so, the browser will ignore the new line chars (\n) unless they are in a <pre> tag. So, try using <br> instead of or with your new line chars.




HTH


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[tsdragon]

You put the quotes in the wrong place. The first two lines print data to a file handle called messtxt. The second two lines print a string to stdout. What you needed to do was:

print messtxt "$lastname\n";
print messtxt "$firstname\n";

Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.