Greetings:

This excellent idea should give the search results a cleaner look and may even speed things up a little, no?

Does the following have to be set and repeated for each field according to the field name?

Exactly where in the html.pl (?) should it go?

Thanks much.

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I have done it like this:
|;

if ($rec{'Whatever_Field'} ne "") {print qq|

$rec{'Whatever_Field'}

|;}

print qq|
JPDeni posted February 13, 1999 11:57 PM PST           
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There's plenty of ways to write the same thing in Perl, but I prefer the
"positive" approach:
if ($rec{'FieldName'}) {
print qq|whatever|;
}

I'm afraid it does have to be repeated for every field that might be empty.

You would put it in html.pl within the html_record subroutine.

Be sure to close off the print qq| before you use the "if" statement. (Did that sound like Greek to you? Sorry. )

Your html_record subroutine should look something like:

If you want to make a fieldname optional, it would be something like


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JPD


[This message has been edited by JPDeni (edited February 20, 1999).]