Re: [hylafax-users] $ sign

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.02.25 15:27 Barney Treadway wrote:
> Just found out that the $ sign doesn't come through when in :
>
> $my_file="sending a dollar total
> how about $5.00
> ";
> sendfax etc $my_file
>
> In fact it wipes the character after it as well leaving fax body with
> "how
> about .00"! I can't find the HTML entity for it either anywhere.
> Anyone know
> how to make $ not mess things up?

sendfax didn't wipe the "$5" out at all.  It's merely telling you that 
the shell set "$5"=="".

In other words, when you set:

$my_file="sending a dollar total
how about $5.00
";

You need to interpret that as the shell will with the $5 expanded to be 
null.

What you probably want to do is to set:

$my_file="sending a dollar total
how about \$5.00
";

or:

$my_file='sending a dollar total
how about $5.00
';

Lee.

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