On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:24:41 +0000, John Delacour <JD(_at_)BD8(_dot_)COM> wrote:
Question 1.
In this script I would like for convenience' sake to use variables in
the second line, but I don't seem to be able to do so. Am I missing
something or is is simply not possible?
$source = 'MacRoman'; # I want to use this in the next line
use encoding qw( MacRoman ), STDOUT => qw( utf-8 ) ;
Should work if you initialize the variable in a BEGIN block:
BEGIN { $source = 'MacRoman'; }
use encoding $source, STDOUT => 'utf-8';
"use" is executed at compile time, so variables initialized at runtime
won't be usable.
$text = "café" ;
print $text ;
Question 2
Is there a way, without using q(), to single-quote a block of text as
one can double-quote it this way:
$text = <<EOT;
Yes, put single quotes around your EOT marker:
$text = <<'EOT';
$ome$tuff
$ome$tuff
$ome$tuff
EOT
#
I want to be able to quote a block of JIS-encoded stuff (which
contains lots of $)
Cheers,
-Jan
