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put content

Type

command

Summary

Write the given (unicode) string to stdout, processing it for suitable output in an SGML content context.

Syntax

put [ unicode ] content <string>

Description

Use the put content command to write a string to stdout that contains HTML markup. This functions identically to 'put markup' except that '<', '>', '&' and '"' are encoded as named entities - <, >, & and ".

Parameters

NameTypeDescription

string

string

A string containing the HTML markup to output. If 'unicode' is not specified, then string is considered to be in the native text encoding for the platform. If unicode is specified, then string is considered to be in UTF-16.

Examples

put content "&lt;p&gt;foobar&lt;/p&gt;"
put unicode content uniEncode(tMyUTF8Markup, "UTF8")
# uniEncode() converts tMyUTF8Markup to UTF-16

command: put header, put, put markup, put text, put binary

keyword: after, before

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 4.6.3

OS

mac

windows

linux

Platforms

server

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