force users to different pages?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:02:41 +0000, "Chris F.A. Johnson"
<cfajohnson (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Or use the safer and more portable printf instead of the
deprecated echo:

printf '<a href="%s">Mystery Tour</a>\n' "$link"

Chris,

I couldn't get above to work so after trying various combinations the
following is OK.

printf("<a href='%s'>Mystery Tour</a>",$link);

Seem OK to you?

Cheers

Geoff

On 2008-03-21, Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(Chris F.A. Johnson)

Or use the safer and more portable printf instead of the
deprecated echo:

Deprecated? Safer? More portable? What are you talking about?

I was talking about something completely different. My apologies;
please ignore my post.

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Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(Chris F.A. Johnson)

printf '<a href="%s">Mystery Tour</a>\n' "$link"

please remove the quotes
around the $link variable - quoting a single variable is just stupid.

Aren't the quotes around the $link variable part of the <a> code, i.e.
for quoting the href attribute value?

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Berg

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Michael Fesser wrote:
.oO(Chris F.A. Johnson)

printf '<a href="%s">Mystery Tour</a>\n' "$link"

please remove the quotes
around the $link variable - quoting a single variable is just stupid.

Aren't the quotes around the $link variable part of the <a> code, i.e.
for quoting the href attribute value?

No. The same in PHP would be

printf('<a href="%s">Mystery Tour</a>\n', "$link");

The quotes for the href attribute are already in the first parameter,
the format string. The second parameter is just the value for the %s
placeholder. For PHP "$link" is a double-quoted string with an embedded
variable. But since there are no other characters in the string, the
quotes are pointless and just cause an unnecessary parsing overhead.

Micha

Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(Bergamot)
Michael Fesser wrote:
.oO(Chris F.A. Johnson)

printf '<a href="%s">Mystery Tour</a>\n' "$link"

please remove the quotes
around the $link variable - quoting a single variable is just stupid.

Aren't the quotes around the $link variable part of the <a> code, i.e.
for quoting the href attribute value?

No.

Duh - my eyes were looking at "%s" but the brain substituted "$link"

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Berg

..oO(Bergamot)

Michael Fesser wrote:
.oO(Bergamot)
Aren't the quotes around the $link variable part of the <a> code, i.e.
for quoting the href attribute value?

No.

Duh - my eyes were looking at "%s" but the brain substituted "$link"

OK.

Micha