Thursday, July 30, 2009

How do you put bullets in emailed form results in Perl.?

I'm using FormMail (Matt's Script Archive, Inc) and am trying to put bullets in front of the form field names in the email that's returned with the information filled out. I believe it's some sort of PRINT function, but I can't figure it out.





Thanks

How do you put bullets in emailed form results in Perl.?
unfortunately Matt's Formmail does not do fancy e-mails.


• is a unicode character, not a plain ascii character.





a simple work-around is to use lower case o as in








o Item 1


o Item 2





a better way would be to modify the code to use unicode or html.





%26amp; middot; is the html way of writing a bullet, it may work in some mail programs, but not all.
Reply:Thats an interesting question and I'm sure it makes sense within a context but it's a bit hard to understand from here. Maybe some sample data might help. Perl nerd at your disposal.

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