Re: [hylafax-users] $ sign

["Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Escaping it should work, or you could enclose the string in single 
quotes instead of double quotes (as long as there are no other variables 
in the string you want expanded).

-Eric 'Shubes'

Simon Perry wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >  
> Barney,
>
> Not that familiar with Hylafax and it's scripts but it sounds like the $ 
> is getting parsed somewhere either escaping it with a backslash or 
> encoding it should work.
>
> \$
> $
>
>
> hth
>
> Simon
>
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--
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
 it is a collectivist myth.
 There are only individual citizens
 with individual wills
 and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
    Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
 "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237


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