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From: Sascha Kimmel <tricos@bravenewweb.net>
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Subject: Re: CGI in BETA
Date: 19 Jun 2000 14:27:48 -0000
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Erik Corry <corry@mjolner.dk> said: 

> Sascha Kimmel <tricos@bravenewweb.net> wrote:
> 
> > In BETA it is IMPOSSIBLE to concatenate strings as in the most scripting 
> > languages, which is mostly because BETA does not have a special character 
for 
> > variables like "$", which Perl and PHP use, so something like the 
following 
> > is impossible with BETA:
> 
> > $thisstring="this";
> > $string="Have a look at $thisstring, and afterwards have a look at 
> > $thisstring!";
> 
> > In BETA you would need to do this the follwing way:
> 
> > 'this'->thisstring[];
> > 'Have a look at '->string[];
> > thisstring[]->string.append;
> > ', and afterwards have a look at '->string.append;
> > thisstring[]->string.append;
> > '!'->string.append;
> 
> How about
> 
> 'this' -> thisstring;
> 'Have a look at %s, and afterwards have a look at %s!' ->
>      string.putformat (# do thisstring[] -> s; thisstring[] -> s; #);
> 
> > These are six lines in comparison to three lines in Perl!
> 
> BETA is three lines too :-)

OK OK OK OK :)
And what about this? :) :
-------------X<-------------------------------------------------
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wkday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
$mon++; $year=$year+1900;
print <<EOF;
You came here from $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}, your IP-address is
$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}, your hostname ist $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'},
your browser is $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} and currently it's
$hour o´clock, $min minutes and $sec seconds on $mday.$mon.$year!
EOF
-------------X<-------------------------------------------------

What if you have many many values? Not easy in BETA, isn't it? :)


> > You can also use BETA REGEX (which is POSIX syntax) but because nobody :) 
> > wants to use POSIX syntax and all :) people want to use PERL syntax this 
is 
> > not used often I guess.
> 
> I'm working on it :-)

Good luck :)
You may want to have a look @ the PHP source available @ http://www.php.net :)

Regards,
Sascha Kimmel