writing text to a file

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I have a text containing " backslashes etc (xml format).

printf grp "<test:tester username ="$id" group-name="$grp1"/>\n"
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I am trying to print it to a text file but got w=errors. I tried to use the backslah but did not help. Any ideas? I tied to put into a variable and then print like this:

 $test = "/<test:test1 username=". $id ."/" group-name=/"". $grp1."//>
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Re: writing text to a file by kyle (Abbot) on Jul 17, 2008 at 18:30 UTC
If you're not using formats, I'd use print instead of printf. If you've got quotation marks in your quoted string, try using qq. If "grp" really is a filehandle you opened with open or something, I'd recommend putting it in all caps, or better yet use a lexical filehandle. `# open my $grp, '>', $out or die "Can't write '$out': $!"; print $grp qq{<test:tester username ="$id" group-name="$grp1"/>\n};` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: writing text to a file by Anonymous Monk on Jul 17, 2008 at 18:42 UTC
Thanks a lot.. I tried the qq and it worked.	[reply]