On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:36:00PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> In a moment of stupidity[1] I agreed to write an article for lathos on
> templating solutions for Perl. This was an attempt to finally break my
> writing block/issues/mindset problems. It is going to be a compare and
> contrast article and so far I've looked at,
>
> Template Toolkit
> HTML::Mason
> Text::Template
> HTML::Template
> HTML::Embperl
>
> First, are there any others that I should look at? Also I'd really like
> any objective input people have about templating with these modules. It
> is important to me to try and not just get the article done and dusted,
> but for once to write a piece of text that I am happy with.
Very simple, but what I've done in the past is simply read in a file and
do something like:
$text =~ s/\$(\w+)/$1/eeg;
Which substitutes any perl vars in the file for stuff in your current
program. Not very pretty, but cheap and easy.
-Dom
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