[ic] Embedding Perl Problem

[Stefan Hornburg]

Doug Alcorn <doug@lathi.net> writes:

> "Dallas Vogels" <dvogels@forestind.com> writes:
> 
> > 	------------------------------------------
> > 	[perl]
> > 		$Config->{PriceField} = 'can_price';
> > 	[perl]
> > 	------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 	The code sits in a HTML page however the text 'can_price' (with out the
> > single quotes) is output on the HTML page.  How do I stop this from
> > happening?
> 
> The [perl] tag outputs the page the result of the last command
> executed inside the tags (much like the return value of a perl
> subroutine). 

Every Perl sub does this.

sub {return "bla";} is equivalent to sub {"bla";}

> I think common practice is to 'return "";' as the last
> part of your [perl] tag if you don't want any output in your page.

Just ''; suffices.

Ciao
        Racke

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