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Mar 2, 2003, 9:04 AM

klauslovgreen

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Mar 2, 2003, 9:04 AM

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parsing values

Hi,

I am trying to include the result of a currency conversion via Pagebuilder - everything is going well until I have to pass the values.. :-(

I use:

Code:
<%LWP::Simple::get('http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic?&user=USERNAME&level=release&date_fmt=normal&value=$value&exch=$exch&expr=$expr&ConvertNow&date=$exdate')%>

I can pass the values in the URL so they are available in the template - but can't insert them in the <%LWP...

Any ideas on how to get the values into the URL?

Thanks in advance

Klaus

http://www.ameinfo.com

Mar 2, 2003, 9:23 AM

Paul

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Mar 2, 2003, 9:23 AM

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Re: [klauslovgreen] parsing values In reply to

I don't think you can do it like that. The parser will assume you are passing a normal string into LWP::Simple::get() and so none of the variables will interpolate.

You'll need to use a global. Something like:

Code:
sub { 
  my $url = "http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic?&user=USERNAME&level=release&date_fmt=normal&value=%s&exch=%s&expr=%s&ConvertNow&date=%s"; 

  require LWP::Simple; 
  return LWP::Simple::get(sprintf($url, @_)); 
}

Then for the tag...

Code:
<%your_global($value, $exch, $expr, $exdate)%>

Mar 2, 2003, 9:29 AM

klauslovgreen

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Mar 2, 2003, 9:29 AM

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Re: [Paul] parsing values In reply to

Thanks Paul - that did the trick :-)

Klaus

http://www.ameinfo.com