Add Text in Perl-Code

Question

Where is my mistake? I need the € sign in the second case additionally.

[% Begin Unverified Perl
if (LISTHASPARENTMEMBER("Randomization",4)) {
    return ACBCWINNERLABEL("ACBCLI", 5);
}
return (GETVALUE("VWDLI_r3_c1")&"€");
End Unverified %]

That code doesn't work - how should I change the inclusion of €

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try replacing with .€ or .€ where it says &”€”.

Special characters in Perl like this can be replaced by their entity names or entity numbers.

Let me know how you go.

I may have the syntax out slightly. I can check when I get back from the beach.

Comments

First of all thanks for your engagement. But it doesn't work. I have tried the following two codes:

[% Begin Unverified Perl
if (LISTHASPARENTMEMBER("Randomization",4)) {
    return ACBCWINNERLABEL("ACBCLI", 5);
}
return (GETVALUE("VWDLI_r3_c1").€);
End Unverified %]

[% Begin Unverified Perl
if (LISTHASPARENTMEMBER("Randomization",4)) {
    return ACBCWINNERLABEL("ACBCLI", 5);
}
return (GETVALUE("VWDLI_r3_c1").€);
End Unverified %]

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I've managed to take a closer look now that I'm back from the beach. A little to tidy up.

We need to add double quotes around € and €.

You also need to insert your else and {} for the 2nd condition.

See my example below which works well ...

[% Begin Unverified Perl
if (VALUE("Q1")==1) 
    {return VALUE("Q1");}

else
 {return (VALUE("Q1")."€")};
End Unverified %]

Just change your condition in the IF statement and what you need to return and this should work nicely for you.

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It works perfectly! thank you! :)

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Great to hear mate.

If you need to display special characters (like dollar signs or euro symbols) within Perl script, then do a Google search on entity names and you will see the entity names and numbers to use within your Perl script.

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Just another little tip to add as another option in this type of scenario.  You can use \ in front of a special character like a monetary symbol in a Perl return expression instead of the html code.  So, to display '€100' you can show it as [% Begin Unverified Perl
{
    return "\€100";
}
End Unverified %]

This way you don't have to look up the corresponding code.

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Nice, thanks for additional information.

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Nice one Jay. I reckon I've been told this before and it slipped my mind. But thanks mate for the helpful tip as always. Always trust advice from the wild wild west.

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Paul, lol.  Yeah I tend to go with that shortcut a lot, especially if I have a study returning monetary amounts for several countries.