[ic] $ and @'s

[Kyle Cook]

At 12:05 PM 7/27/01, you wrote:
>         A custom has a description field (just a normal field), he 
> decided to put something in the description about the price originally 
> being like $30.00 and I can see it in the database, it shows up in the 
> admin when I edit it. When it goes to print on the page.
>
>Just realized I have the description in a [perl] tag.
>
>Anyone have a work around for using $ and @'s in descriptions/fields in a 
>perl tag? or should I just write a filter? I could apply the filter to the 
>flypage instead.
>
>Just curious.

You gave no code, but if you mean:

[perl]
$mydescrip = "[PREFIX-description]";
......

Then try something like this instead:

[perl]
$mydescrip = q{[PREFIX-description]};
......


Kyle Cook