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

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

I guess this person should get their money back.

There is a volunteer documentation project for Minivend. I expect this
pathetic anonymous whiner to write a section for the FAQ on what has been
learned (with examples) and post it here.

Christopher Thompson


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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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