Re: <plaintext> tag obsolete? I think not!

>perl handles &lt; and &gt; just fine.

Yes, but now when you need to print out repeated lines using something like...

STDOUT = 
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<
$name,                                       $email
.

Because once you substitute the < and > with &lt; and &gt; it takes up 4
spaces (4 of your @<<< spaces) instead of just one.

So the text   "<jamie>"  would fit in the field  "@<<<<<<", but
"&lt;jamie&gt;" would not.

That's my dilemma.

   .jamie

Received on Friday, 9 January 1998 11:28:34 UTC