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Is it the perl script that blows up, or the browser?<br />
In what way does it blow up?
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Is it the perl script that blows up, or the browser?
In what way does it blow up?

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its the perl script that complains about there being a non terminated single quote.
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its the perl script that complains about there being a non terminated single quote.

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sorry - I need to be clearer.<br />
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I am accepting input, printing it to the mailer (sending mail) and then I print a 'Location:http//.....' at the end to send the user to a web page.<br />
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I will try the Content-type though...<br />
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Greg
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sorry - I need to be clearer.

I am accepting input, printing it to the mailer (sending mail) and then I print a 'Location:http//.....' at the end to send the user to a web page.

I will try the Content-type though...

Greg

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Thanks - my mistake was to put the $comment in quotes before as a part of the print string. &nbsp;Now it works fine.<br />
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Many Thanks - enjoy your points!
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Thanks - my mistake was to put the $comment in quotes before as a part of the print string.  Now it works fine.

Many Thanks - enjoy your points!

Glad to have been of help to you :-)

Rgds

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How did putting $comment in quotes cause a problem?
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How did putting $comment in quotes cause a problem?

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I have a form that calls a perl script. &nbsp;When the user enters a single comment character it causes my perl script to blow up when I try printing that field. &nbsp;So my code looks like:<br />
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$comment= $query-&gt;param('comment');<br />
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and later on <br />
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print $comment;<br />
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I know it must be sonething simple - any ideas?
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I have a form that calls a perl script.  When the user enters a single comment character it causes my perl script to blow up when I try printing that field.  So my code looks like:

$comment= $query->param('comment');

and later on 

print $comment;

I know it must be sonething simple - any ideas?

Single comments causing runtime problems

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