[ic] $ and @'s

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Victor Nolton (ven@pragakhan.com):
> 	A custom has a description field (just a normal field), he 
> decided to put something in the description about the price 
> originally being like $30.00 and I can see it in the database, it 
> shows up in the admin when I edit it. When it goes to print on the 
> page.
> 
> Just realized I have the description in a [perl] tag.
> 
> Anyone have a work around for using $ and @'s in descriptions/fields 
> in a perl tag? or should I just write a filter? I could apply the 
> filter to the flypage instead.

If you are using [perl interpolate=1], don't. Access it directly.

If you are doing

		[calc] 
			$desc = "[value description]";
		[/calc]

Do instead:

		[calc] 
			$desc = $Values->{description};
		[/calc]

Or if you must use the tags:

	[calc]
		$desc = q{[value description]};
	[/calc]

That at least will only error out on an unmatched right curly.

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