can someone explain this- wierd...

ROB posted this at 04:38 — 1st March 2000.

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why does this:

sub STYLE
{ local $style;

$style .=<<END_STYLE;

<STYLE>

TD.lclDark
{ background-color: #737373;
}

TD.lclHead
{ background-color: #AFAFAF;
}

TD.lclCell
{ background-color: #E1E1E1;
}

SPAN.lclCell
{ color: #646464;
font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sanserif;
font-weight: 400;
font-size: 11pt;
margin-left: 2em;
}

SPAN.lclCellc
{ color: #646464;
font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sanserif;
font-weight: 400;
font-size: 11pt;
text-align: center;
}
A.lclLink
{ color: #617999;
font-family: \"comic sans ms\", sanserif;
font-size: 10pt;
margin-left: 2em;
}

SPAN.lclLight
{ color: #C8C8C8;
font-weight: 700;
font-size: 13pt;
margin-left: 1.5em;
}

</STYLE>

END_STYLE

return $style;
}

return this:

<STYLE>

TD.lclDark
{ background-color: #737373;
}

TD.lclHead
{ background-color: #AFAFAF;
}

TD.lclCell
{ background-color: #E1E1E1;
}

SPAN.lclCell
{ color: #646464;
font-family: "comic sans ms", sanserif;
43= 44; &sspb_step0(0); font-weight: 400;
43= 45; &sspb_step0(0); font-size: 11pt;
43= 46; &sspb_step0(0); margin-left: 2em;
}

SPAN.lclCellc
{ color: #646464;
font-family: "comic sans ms", sanserif;
43= 47; &sspb_step0(0); font-weight: 400;
43= 48; &sspb_step0(0); font-size: 11pt;
43= 49; &sspb_step0(0); text-align: center;
}
A.lclLink
{ color: #617999;
font-family: "comic sans ms", sanserif;
43= 50; &sspb_step0(0); font-size: 10pt;
43= 51; &sspb_step0(0); margin-left: 2em;
}
SPAN.lclLight
{ color: #C8C8C8;
font-weight: 700;
43= 52; &sspb_step0(0); font-size: 13pt;
43= 53; &sspb_step0(0); margin-left: 1.5em;
}
</STYLE>

i think it may have something to do with the quotes ", i have tried them escaped and unescaped and get the same results.

fairhousing posted this at 05:01 — 1st March 2000.

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sorry, that's over my head. clearly, i've still got lots to learn about perl.

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Suzanne posted this at 20:23 — 1st March 2000.

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Just a suggestion, but perhaps the semi-colon after the quotes is causing some issues?

Quick question, too -- why are you adding the CSS in the Perl? Would it not be easier (especially for such a great length) to have it as an included file instead? Or even use a global style sheet and call to that?

I am tremendously curious, please let me know!

Suzanne

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Orpheus posted this at 21:51 — 1st March 2000.

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try using

code:

$style = qq|
STYLE HERE
|;
[/code]

roBofh posted this at 21:51 — 1st March 2000.

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I copied and pasted your stuff on to one of my machines, and it worked fine. Perhaps you are doing some other manipulation to the return value of STYLE somewhere? BTW, what version of perl are you using? Me, I've got version 5.005_03 built for i686-linux-thread.

Rob Radez
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ROB posted this at 21:58 — 1st March 2000.

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well, the page does use an external style sheet, however these are styles local, specific to the page being generated and not included in the external style sheet.

return <<END_STYLE; #produces identical results

i havnt tried
print <<END_STYLE;
but i assume it will give me the same results.

this is not actually the entire subroutine, just a piece of it i wrote for the purpose of debugging this thing. granted there are many other ways to achieve what i want to do but this is the easiest way.

ROB posted this at 22:52 — 1st March 2000.

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roBofh, i have a current version of perl installed, but i am using perlbuilder which seems to be kind of buggy. maybe the problem is in perlbuilder. ill try running it from a prompt when i get home

ROB posted this at 05:00 — 2nd March 2000.

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ok, i guess it works fine. must be a bug in perlbuilder1.0.

thanks for the replies everyone