Posting perl code samples

[AndyBo]

There's been quite a few posts recently where folks have posted perl code as part of their query.&nbsp;&nbsp;Because postings are treated like HTML, the code ends up as one big paragraph and becomes difficult to read.<br><br>The guys at Tek-Tips implemented TGML (Tecumseh Group Markup Language ;^) quite some time ago to help folks get around this problem.<br><br>Basically, TGML works like HTML, but instead of &quot;&lt;&quot; and &quot;&gt;&quot; tag markers, you use &quot;[&quot; and &quot;]&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Your tags should not contain spaces after &quot;[&quot; or before &quot;]&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>In the examples below, I've put spaces into the tags that are being displayed so that they will be displayed.&nbsp;&nbsp;What you won't see if the &quot;proper&quot; tags that are doing the actual markup.<br><br><b>Using [ tt ] and [ /tt ] to post scripts</b><br>[ tt ] goes here<FONT FACE=monospace><br>#!/usr/bin/perl<br><br>@Array = (&quot;Hello&quot;, &quot;World&quot;<br><br>foreach $item (@Array) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;print $item, &quot; &quot;;<br>}<br><br>print &quot;\n&quot;;<br></font>and [ /tt ] goes here.<br><br><b>Using [ b ] and [ /b ] to make words appear in bold</b><br>Just use [ b ]<b>before and [ /b ]</b> after the text to bold.<br><br>Anyway, you get the idea.&nbsp;&nbsp;Off to the right hand side of the page you will see a &quot;Helpful Tips&quot; box.&nbsp;&nbsp;Click on the [a href=&quot;<A HREF="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com/sitehelp.cfm&quot"[/URL] TARGET="_new">

http://www.tek-tips.com/sitehelp.cfm&quot</A>;

]See Full List[/a] link for more information on TGML. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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[fortytwo]

There seem to be some problems.&nbsp;&nbsp;see the post:<br><br>how do you read in a html page from another site?<br><br>and you will see that there are extra semi colons getting added.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any one else noticed this? <p>fortytwo<br><a href=mailto:will@hellacool.co.uk>will@hellacool.co.uk</a><br><a href=

http://www.hellacool.co.uk>my

test site</a><br>

 

[oinkers]

<b>jsut testing the bold</b>

 

[fortytwo]

The spelling seems to be out aswell <p>fortytwo<br><a href=mailto:will@hellacool.co.uk>will@hellacool.co.uk</a><br><a href=

http://www.hellacool.co.uk>my

test site</a><br>

 

[AndyBo]

I tried being too clever putting in the link to the help page.&nbsp;&nbsp;I forgot that postings are parsed for

http://www addresses,

and a HREF automatically added.&nbsp;&nbsp;The link to the help page should be <A HREF="

http://www.tek-tips.com/sitehelp.cfm"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.tek-tips.com/sitehelp.cfm</A><br><br>If

that doesn't work, look at the right hand side of this page for the &quot;Helpful Tip&quot; box.<br><br>Also, rather than reading or pasting in text from another HTML page, it's probably better if you just put a link to the page.&nbsp;&nbsp;That way, if the page changes, you're posting is still current. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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