[thelist] Quoted attibute values

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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<tip type="easier quoting">
In Perl, you can use any char for your quote/string delimiter (of the Perl
statement),
thereby keeping out of the way of your HTML quotes (so you don't need
so escape them).

All you do is define your delimiter with
q (for single quotes) or
qq (for double)
followed by the char you want to use.

So in this example, I use a bar as the delimiter in place of a double quote:
$html .= qq|-&gt; <a href="$crumbs_path[$i]" class="crumb">$crumbs[$i]</a> |;
which is the equivalent of
$html .= "&gt; <a href=\"$crumbs_path[$i]\" class=\"crumb\">$crumbs[$i]</a> ";
</tip>

Cheers
Martin





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Subject:  RE: [thelist] Quoted attibute values




I know the specs say either, but everyone (?) uses double quotes, and
when I'm echo'ing html tags from PHP, it's a darn sight easier to use
single quotes than escaped double ones:

a) echo "<img src='blob.jpg'>"; // better?
b) echo "<img src=\"blob.jpg\">"; // worse?


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