weird behaviour of "print" 1

[Graziella]

Hi,

if $q = "How far from the earth is the sun?"
and I want to print $q in between <HELLO> and </HELLO>,
using simply the line
print "<HELLO> $q </HELLO>\n";

Why would the output be:
</HELLO>ow far from the earth is the sun?
With the second </HELLO> printed first, and the first character of the $q missing ?!

I have been moving the print line around the code, thinking that there might have a character before that conflicts with the print line, but nothing is working.
It is really weird. Never seen this before.

Grazia

 

[KevinADC]

if you can, test your script from the command prompt and see what it prints. If it still prints weird than I would have to assume the $q is getting redefined somewhere in the script before the print line. If not, it could be a browser issue, try testing the code in another browser and see what prints.

I know that I was confused recently with a chop problem out putting the results to Mozilla 1.5:

my $line = '{<x,2>,<y,-3>,<z,75>}';
chop($line);
print "$line\n";
# prints : {<x,2>,<y,-3>,<z,75> (as expected)
chop($line);
print $line;
# prints : {<x,2>,<y,-3>, (not as expected!)

I don't know why but Mozilla just will not print the chop results correctly on the second chop, not even in the source code.

 

[KevinADC]

Is the star an indication that something I posted helped solve your question? If so, can you post what the "problem" was please?

 

[Extension]

It's should work.

Do you run you script from command line or from a web browser ? For me, it's working on both.