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From: tshiono@cv.sony.co.jp (Toru SHIONO)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: addch (curses)
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Date: 14 Feb 94 09:17:30 GMT
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In article <2jht3s$1if@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
	altitude@snre.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes:

:#!/usr/local/bin/curseperl
:&initscr();
:&move(0,0);
:&addstr ("Hello");
:&addch (' ');
:&addstr ("there");
:
:and all i get is: 
:Hellothere
:
:did i do something wrong???

The argument of addch is a char, which is a numeric value rather than
a string in Perl's expression.  So try:

&addch(ord ' ');

If you don't like it, use &addstr(" ") instead.
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Toru "devil-may-care" Shiono          Sony Corporation, JAPAN



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