Hi,
I ran across what looks like a bug to me, though I suppose it could
be a feature. :)
When a hash key starts with a dot, I can't figure out how to
retrieve its corresponding value from the hash. Here's a sample
script to illustrate the problem:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use lib '/www/ocms/lib';
use Template;
use Template::Constants qw( :debug );
my $data = {
'1213.103' => {
name => 'Sally',
age => 21
},
'1502.523' => {
name => 'Tommy',
age => 25
},
'.109' => {
name => 'Kevin',
age => 54
}
};
my $tt = Template->new or die Template->error;
$tt->process( \*DATA, { data => $data } ) or die $tt->error;
__DATA__
[% USE Dumper %]
[% Dumper.dump( data ) %]
[% FOREACH id = data.keys.sort %]
[% id %]
[% Dumper.dump( data.$id ) %]
[% END %]
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When id is '.109', data.$id returns nothing. I was thinking that
maybe a patch to Stash's get() could solve the problem, by first
doing a check to see if they $ident value would return something on
its own, before splitting it and recursing down the dot-separated
parts. But I had trouble making that work. Like I said, this may
well be a feature, but it seems strange to me that hash keys with a
non-leading dot work fine; it's only the dot-leading keys that fail
when used in this way.
Any thoughts on how (or whether) to approach a fix?
Thanks,
Dave
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