Perl Var to Jscript Var

[nemo1966]

oh dear - first post.
I was trying to ask about a problem... however with it being a problem involving perl/cgi and a url... your system wont let me post it.
WOW how useful is that......
So what do you want me to do? post 5 completely random posts just so I can pose my problem?

[vinyl-junkie]

Post the URL without a hyperlink, or else post the source code for the page. And of course, you'll want to post your problem statement as well.

[nemo1966]

The problem I have is I am trying to pass a variable from Perl to be able to use it in Javascript. In this case the remote IP address but that is incidental.Up to now I have a perl script in my cgi-bin called ip the code in the file is:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wTuse strict;use CGI;print CGI::header('text/text');print qq/var IP="$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}"/;

(; separates the perl lines - for some reason the quirky editor doeant seem to like code even in code brackets)The page that calls it is www (dot) rimmelsoft.co.uk/iptest.htm. As you can see the perl page should expose a var called IP to the jscript, but for some reason it doesn't. Can anyone help? I've been on this for 2 weeks now and my hair is starting to fall out.thanks in advance.

[vinyl-junkie]

You need to escape special characters with a backslash, so instead of this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wTuse strict;
use CGI;
print CGI::header('text/text');
print qq/var IP="$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}"/;

you need this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wTuse strict;
use CGI;
print CGI::header('text/text');
print qq/var IP=\"$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}\"/;

[nemo1966]

That didn't seem to have any effect. Thanks for the reply though - perhaps getting a little nearer.