[ic] problems printing with perl

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Ed LaFrance)]

At 03:41 PM 08/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey everyone-
>
>I'm trying to add some perl into one of the admin interface pages, except 
>it's not printing to the page!
>the following doesn't work:
>
>[perl]
>print("test");
>[/perl]
>
>while the following does:
>[perl]
>return "test";
>[/perl]
>
>of course the latter ends my perl run, as well.
>
>does anyone have any idea why in the world this is happening?
>

print uses STDOUT, which is closed by Interchange by default. When echoing 
output/results with perl and Interchange, you'll want to store output in a 
variable (or in an Interchange data structure like $Scratch) and then 
return it on the last line:

[perl]
         my $output = 'Something';
         return $output;
[/perl]

- Ed L.


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