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Mar 22, 2004, 6:41 AM

minesite

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Mar 22, 2004, 6:41 AM

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Description Formatted - Multiple Fields

I'm using this global to format the description field but I would like it to format multiple description fields.( 4 other fields including the description)
I can just make 4 copies of this but thought there may be a better way.

sub {

my $tags = shift;

my $Description = $tags->{Description};

$Description = GT::CGI::html_escape($Description);

$Description =~ s/\n/<BR>\n/g;

$Description =~ s,\[([/\w\s#"=;:{}]+)\],<$1>,g;

return $Description;

}

ie Description,Description1,Description2,Description3,Description4.

Any pointers.

Thanks

Regards

minesite

Mar 22, 2004, 7:01 AM

afinlr

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Mar 22, 2004, 7:01 AM

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sub {
my $Description = shift;
$Description = GT::CGI::html_escape($Description);
$Description =~ s/\n/<BR>\n/g;
$Description =~ s,\[([/\w\s#"=;:{}]+)\],<$1>,g;
return $Description;
}

Then use <%globalname($Description1)%> etc.

Mar 22, 2004, 7:02 AM

Andy

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Mar 22, 2004, 7:02 AM

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This should work. You need to pass in the field name.. i.e <%global($FieldNameToFormat)%>;

Code:
sub {  

  my $field_content = $_[0]; 
  $field_content = GT::CGI::html_escape($field_content);  

  $field_content =~ s|\n|<BR>\n|g;  
  $field_content =~ s,\[([/\w\s#"=;:{}]+)\],<$1>,g;  

  return $field_content;  

}

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 22, 2004, 7:07 AM

Andy

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Mar 22, 2004, 7:07 AM

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Less than a minute between us, huh Laura? Wink

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 22, 2004, 7:13 AM

minesite

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Mar 22, 2004, 7:13 AM

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Thanks and Thanks.

Regards

minesite

Mar 22, 2004, 7:14 AM

afinlr

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Mar 22, 2004, 7:14 AM

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Good to see we both came up with the same solution!

Mar 22, 2004, 7:31 AM

Andy

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Mar 22, 2004, 7:31 AM

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Good to see we both came up with the same solution!

Indeed. It should also be faster, as you are not passing in the whole set of variables, but instead just the one variable that actually needs to be worked on :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk