Hi, i realize that this doesn't have to do with perl -exactly-, but it does in the long run, and quite frankly i didn't know where else to ask.
i have two perl written cgi scripts, on seperate servers. one is a shopping cart, the other is a logging mechanism; and it seems the shopping cart's values aren't very compatible with mine.
it will let me use an 'embedded' variable for the total price (FINAL_SUBTOTAL), but places spaces and other garbage within the result.
eg. $ 4.95, as opposed to 4.95 which is what i need.
now, what i did was make a kludgy workaround, because i'm on a limited timeframe (working and all (: ), so i used some javascript on the shopping carts thankyou page to implement JS's weird but mildly effective regex functions, and got this:
<script language="javascript">
var re = /([^\d\.]+)/g;
var str = "FINAL_SUBTOTAL";
var newstr = str.replace(re, "");
</script>

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now, the main problem is getting my newly regexed variable to show up in a URL (eg.  <img src="http://somedomain/cgi-bin/some.cgi?newstr">)
or something like that. and just to be clear, for reference sake alone, i'll post a perlish version of this stupid JS later on. (:
please dont flame me, i would've patched the other perl script had i been given the time, but a deadline is a deadline.

strfry

In reply to making perl scripts play nicely together by strfry()

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