<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>&lt;?= ... ?&gt;</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rivet.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Apache Rivet"><link rel="up" href="commands.html" title="Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables"><link rel="prev" href="commands.html" title="Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables"><link rel="next" href="abort_code.html" title="abort_code"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">&lt;?= ... ?&gt;</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="commands.html"><img src="images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Rivet Tcl Commands and Variables</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="abort_code.html"><img src="images/next.png" alt="Next"></a></td></tr></table></div><div class="refentry"><a name="shorthand"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>&lt;?= ... ?&gt; — 
				Shorthand construct for single strings output
			</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis" style="width:80%"><div style="background:#ccccff ; margin:1ex ; padding:.4ex; padding-left: 0.8ex;   word-spacing:1ex "><span style="font-weight:bold ; font-family:monospace">&lt;?=   <span style="font-family:monospace; font-weight: bold;">$string</span>  ?&gt;</span> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp55392144"></a><h2>Description</h2><p style="width:90%">
				This construct is a simplified form to print a single string wherever
				needed in a  ?<span style="font-family:monospace; font-weight: bold;">.rvt</span>? template. The contruct is equivalent to
				writing the following line of Tcl code
			</p><pre style="background:#ccc; margin: 2ex; margin-right: 10%;       padding: 1ex; border: dashed black 1px ; white-space: pre;      font-family: monospace; font-size: 90%;" class="programlisting">puts -nonewline $string</pre><p style="width:90%">			
				The  ?<span style="font-family:monospace; font-weight: bold;">string</span>? argument to the shorthand construct can 
				be any Tcl command returning a value
			</p><p style="width:90%">
				See <a class="xref" href="examples.html#hello_world" title="Example 1. Hello World">Example 1, “Hello World”</a> or
				<a class="xref" href="examples.html#variable_access" title="Example 3. Variable Access">Example 3, “Variable Access”</a>
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