cgi, templates, and the % operator
Moshe Zadka
moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Sun Jul 23 01:32:13 EDT 2000
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Bob Horvath wrote:
> HI all,
>
> I have a CGI script that I would like to be able to use the
> % operator and a HTML template to product the outout.
> Unfortunately, the HTML that is the template contains table tags
> that have percentage widths on them , as in '<table align="center"
> width="90%">'. Later, of course, I have something like 'blah blah
> %(var_to_be_replaced)s blah blah'.
>
> The problem is that the % in the width setting looks like a format
> string.
>
> Anyway to escape the %, or to turn it into something else that
> won't screw up the % operator.
Yes -- use %%.
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Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il>
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