printint <\QUESTION>

[Graziella]

Hi,

print "<QUESTION> $questions <\\QUESTION>";

with the double backslash, does not work. Perl still confuses \\Q with one of its special characters.
How could I print <\QUESTION> ?

Grazia

 

[TonyGroves]

That works for me (ActivePerl 5.8, Windows).

One point though: the string looks like XML, so should that not be a forward-slash instead of a back-slash?

 

[vego]

That's what I was thinking, too.

print "<QUESTION> $questions <\/QUESTION>";

 

[Graziella]

I am using Perl 5.8 in a Unix environment.
It still does not work and I get a funny output.
My line of code is
print "<QUESTION> $ID2questions{$qID} </QUESTION>\n";

And I print out:
</QUESTION>ow far would you run if you participate in a marathon?

a. without <QUESTION>
b. missing first character of the question itself, i.e. it print "ow" instead of "How".

Grazia

 

[TonyGroves]

With this code:
[tt]
$qID='running';
$ID2questions{$qID}=
'How far would you run if you participate in a marathon?';
print "<QUESTION> $ID2questions{$qID} </QUESTION>\n";
[/tt]
I get:
[tt]
<QUESTION> How far would you run if you participate in a marathon? </QUESTION>
[/tt]

 

[Graziella]

Hi TonyGroves,

I agree with you that is should print what you get, but it does not do it. I still get the error message.

GRazia

 

[ishnid]

Works correctly for me too - 5.8.4 on Linux.