Re: gEDA-dev: John's perl scripts for generating footprints

["John Luciani" <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 14:16 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Am just trying your example perl scripts for generating footprints. Very
>> nice...
>>
>> I couldn't make it work directly. It seems the:
>>
>> while () {
>> }
>>
>> section busyloops. It seems to work OK with:
>>
>> while (<DATA>) {
>> }
>>
>> Did perl change its behaviour? (I have v5.8.8)
>
> AHA.. seems the code IS there in the web-page, just not properly
> escaped.. so it views as "while () {", and copy-pastes the same.

The Perl code that embeds the scripts in the webpage must not be putting
the necessary escapes for <DATA>. Sorry about that.

> Mystery solved - I couldn't see how your code would be released broken
> John!

I can ;-) Thanks for the bug report on the webpage.  I will get that
fixed prior to
the next update.

(* jcl *)

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