Re: [perl] tag is a cruel joke, and user-defined tags don't dojack , squat. HELP! How do I use Perl!?

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

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>Hey there MiniVend gurus--
>
>	Just started with the program, and I'm trying to utilize a Perl
>script I've written from within a MiniVend page. The [perl] tag is a cruel
>joke; you can't use backticks (due to that stupid Safe module, which I'd
>rather not turn off if I don't have to) or even print statements (!!!!!);
>all you can use seems to be setting and returning variables, which is
>unacceptable. I need more than that!
>
>	I tried to define the Perl I want as a user tag. It did squat.
>First of all, the syntax listed on the Web site for defining a user tag is
>horrible-- MiniVend chokes on it when starting up. Secondly, when I
>finally DID find a way of arranging the damned curly-braces so that it
>wouldn't puke on my user tag, the user tag did SQUAT!
>
>	They say the best way to learn is by example. Could someone give
>me an example-- or more than one example-- of a way to display the output
>of:
>
>print "Hi there";
>
>...in a MiniVend page?
>
>	Flames or "RTFM"s will be passed on to /dev/null. Please give me a
>real answer.
>
>	Incidentally, the MiniVend FAQ ***SUCKS***. Perhaps something more
>like the Perl FAQ is in order-- where it's more of an "all questions we've
>been asked that have a simple--or even a not-so-simple-- answer" list than
>a "frequently asked questions" list. The MiniVend FAQ only answers the
>simplest of stupid questions...
>
>

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Frank

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Frank Miedreich
Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung