Re: (jptxs) $dollers %percents and all other things (/) slashed

Ovid and chipmunk have already answered the question asked superbly, but my question to you is what exactly are you up to? I have always found that when I am writing and appending things to other scripts by opening them and directly placing text in there I am going down a bad road.

Maybe you should make a fuller post of what you're trying to accomplish and then we can see if there's a better way to get where you're going.

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Re: Re: (jptxs) $dollers %percents and all other things (/) slashed by otijim (Acolyte) on Dec 11, 2000 at 23:05 UTC
I'm modifying a script that the programmers use here so they can get the changes made uploaded to the servers automatically. We need them to put in some comments along with the request to upload. There are two scripts, the request script and the upload script. I cannot permenantly modify the upload script so we have the request script append a few lines of code to a temp copy of the upload script that will send out an email with the comments after the changes have been uploaded(ie the upload script is run). There's the purpose. Its pretty much just because my 'superiors' don't want the upload script modified so appending a couple lines is my work around.	[reply]
Re: (jptxs2) $dollers %percents and all other things (/) slashed by jptxs (Curate) on Dec 11, 2000 at 23:34 UTC
well, that's no fun at all is it? =) I asked because there are more graceful things one can do in place of appending to a script in many cases, but I guess you've been left with little choice through requirements placed on you - I know that feeling all too well... `"A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the seriousness on +e had as a child, at play." --Nietzsch +e` [download]	[reply] [d/l]