bldsystemtools/commonbldutils/GenResult/lib/Text/Template.pm
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# -*- perl -*-
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# Text::Template.pm
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#
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# Fill in `templates'
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#
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# Copyright 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 M-J. Dominus.
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# You may copy and distribute this program under the
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# same terms as Perl iteself.  
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# If in doubt, write to mjd-perl-template+@plover.com for a license.
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#
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# Version 1.44
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package Text::Template;
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require 5.004;
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use Exporter;
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@ISA = qw(Exporter);
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@EXPORT_OK = qw(fill_in_file fill_in_string TTerror);
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use vars '$ERROR';
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use strict;
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$Text::Template::VERSION = '1.44';
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my %GLOBAL_PREPEND = ('Text::Template' => '');
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sub Version {
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  $Text::Template::VERSION;
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}
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sub _param {
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  my $kk;
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  my ($k, %h) = @_;
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  for $kk ($k, "\u$k", "\U$k", "-$k", "-\u$k", "-\U$k") {
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    return $h{$kk} if exists $h{$kk};
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  }
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  return;
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}
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sub always_prepend
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{
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  my $pack = shift;
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  my $old = $GLOBAL_PREPEND{$pack};
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  $GLOBAL_PREPEND{$pack} = shift;
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  $old;
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}
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{
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  my %LEGAL_TYPE;
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  BEGIN { 
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    %LEGAL_TYPE = map {$_=>1} qw(FILE FILEHANDLE STRING ARRAY);
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  }
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  sub new {
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    my $pack = shift;
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    my %a = @_;
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    my $stype = uc(_param('type', %a)) || 'FILE';
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    my $source = _param('source', %a);
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    my $untaint = _param('untaint', %a);
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    my $prepend = _param('prepend', %a);
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    my $alt_delim = _param('delimiters', %a);
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    my $broken = _param('broken', %a);
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    unless (defined $source) {
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      require Carp;
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      Carp::croak("Usage: $ {pack}::new(TYPE => ..., SOURCE => ...)");
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    }
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    unless ($LEGAL_TYPE{$stype}) {
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      require Carp;
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      Carp::croak("Illegal value `$stype' for TYPE parameter");
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    }
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    my $self = {TYPE => $stype,
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		PREPEND => $prepend,
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                UNTAINT => $untaint,
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                BROKEN => $broken,
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		(defined $alt_delim ? (DELIM => $alt_delim) : ()),
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	       };
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    # Under 5.005_03, if any of $stype, $prepend, $untaint, or $broken
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    # are tainted, all the others become tainted too as a result of
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    # sharing the expression with them.  We install $source separately
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    # to prevent it from acquiring a spurious taint.
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    $self->{SOURCE} = $source;
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    bless $self => $pack;
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    return unless $self->_acquire_data;
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    $self;
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  }
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}
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# Convert template objects of various types to type STRING,
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# in which the template data is embedded in the object itself.
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sub _acquire_data {
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  my ($self) = @_;
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  my $type = $self->{TYPE};
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  if ($type eq 'STRING') {
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    # nothing necessary    
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  } elsif ($type eq 'FILE') {
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    my $data = _load_text($self->{SOURCE});
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    unless (defined $data) {
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      # _load_text already set $ERROR
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      return undef;
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    }
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    if ($self->{UNTAINT} && _is_clean($self->{SOURCE})) {
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      _unconditionally_untaint($data);
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    }
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    $self->{TYPE} = 'STRING';
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    $self->{FILENAME} = $self->{SOURCE};
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    $self->{SOURCE} = $data;
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  } elsif ($type eq 'ARRAY') {
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    $self->{TYPE} = 'STRING';
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    $self->{SOURCE} = join '', @{$self->{SOURCE}};
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  } elsif ($type eq 'FILEHANDLE') {
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    $self->{TYPE} = 'STRING';
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    local $/;
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    my $fh = $self->{SOURCE};
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    my $data = <$fh>; # Extra assignment avoids bug in Solaris perl5.00[45].
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    if ($self->{UNTAINT}) {
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      _unconditionally_untaint($data);
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    }
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    $self->{SOURCE} = $data;
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  } else {
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    # This should have been caught long ago, so it represents a 
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    # drastic `can't-happen' sort of failure
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    my $pack = ref $self;
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    die "Can only acquire data for $pack objects of subtype STRING, but this is $type; aborting";
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  }
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  $self->{DATA_ACQUIRED} = 1;
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}
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sub source {
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  my ($self) = @_;
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  $self->_acquire_data unless $self->{DATA_ACQUIRED};
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  return $self->{SOURCE};
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}
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sub set_source_data {
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  my ($self, $newdata) = @_;
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  $self->{SOURCE} = $newdata;
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  $self->{DATA_ACQUIRED} = 1;
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  $self->{TYPE} = 'STRING';
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  1;
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}
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sub compile {
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  my $self = shift;
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  return 1 if $self->{TYPE} eq 'PREPARSED';
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  return undef unless $self->_acquire_data;
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  unless ($self->{TYPE} eq 'STRING') {
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    my $pack = ref $self;
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    # This should have been caught long ago, so it represents a 
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    # drastic `can't-happen' sort of failure
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    die "Can only compile $pack objects of subtype STRING, but this is $self->{TYPE}; aborting";
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  }
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  my @tokens;
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  my $delim_pats = shift() || $self->{DELIM};
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  my ($t_open, $t_close) = ('{', '}');
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  my $DELIM;			# Regex matches a delimiter if $delim_pats
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  if (defined $delim_pats) {
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    ($t_open, $t_close) = @$delim_pats;
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    $DELIM = "(?:(?:\Q$t_open\E)|(?:\Q$t_close\E))";
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    @tokens = split /($DELIM|\n)/, $self->{SOURCE};
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  } else {
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    @tokens = split /(\\\\(?=\\*[{}])|\\[{}]|[{}\n])/, $self->{SOURCE};
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  }
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  my $state = 'TEXT';
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  my $depth = 0;
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  my $lineno = 1;
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  my @content;
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  my $cur_item = '';
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  my $prog_start;
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  while (@tokens) {
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    my $t = shift @tokens;
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    next if $t eq '';
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    if ($t eq $t_open) {	# Brace or other opening delimiter
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      if ($depth == 0) {
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	push @content, [$state, $cur_item, $lineno] if $cur_item ne '';
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	$cur_item = '';
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	$state = 'PROG';
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	$prog_start = $lineno;
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      } else {
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	$cur_item .= $t;
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      }
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      $depth++;
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    } elsif ($t eq $t_close) {	# Brace or other closing delimiter
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      $depth--;
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      if ($depth < 0) {
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	$ERROR = "Unmatched close brace at line $lineno";
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	return undef;
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      } elsif ($depth == 0) {
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	push @content, [$state, $cur_item, $prog_start] if $cur_item ne '';
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	$state = 'TEXT';
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	$cur_item = '';
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      } else {
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	$cur_item .= $t;
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      }
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    } elsif (!$delim_pats && $t eq '\\\\') { # precedes \\\..\\\{ or \\\..\\\}
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      $cur_item .= '\\';
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    } elsif (!$delim_pats && $t =~ /^\\([{}])$/) { # Escaped (literal) brace?
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	$cur_item .= $1;
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    } elsif ($t eq "\n") {	# Newline
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      $lineno++;
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      $cur_item .= $t;
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    } else {			# Anything else
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      $cur_item .= $t;
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    }
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  }
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  if ($state eq 'PROG') {
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    $ERROR = "End of data inside program text that began at line $prog_start";
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    return undef;
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  } elsif ($state eq 'TEXT') {
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    push @content, [$state, $cur_item, $lineno] if $cur_item ne '';
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  } else {
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    die "Can't happen error #1";
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  }
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  $self->{TYPE} = 'PREPARSED';
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  $self->{SOURCE} = \@content;
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  1;
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}
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sub prepend_text {
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  my ($self) = @_;
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  my $t = $self->{PREPEND};
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  unless (defined $t) {
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    $t = $GLOBAL_PREPEND{ref $self};
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    unless (defined $t) {
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      $t = $GLOBAL_PREPEND{'Text::Template'};
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    }
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  }
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  $self->{PREPEND} = $_[1] if $#_ >= 1;
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  return $t;
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}
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sub fill_in {
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  my $fi_self = shift;
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  my %fi_a = @_;
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  unless ($fi_self->{TYPE} eq 'PREPARSED') {
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    my $delims = _param('delimiters', %fi_a);
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    my @delim_arg = (defined $delims ? ($delims) : ());
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    $fi_self->compile(@delim_arg)
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      or return undef;
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  }
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  my $fi_varhash = _param('hash', %fi_a);
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  my $fi_package = _param('package', %fi_a) ;
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  my $fi_broken  = 
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    _param('broken', %fi_a)  || $fi_self->{BROKEN} || \&_default_broken;
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  my $fi_broken_arg = _param('broken_arg', %fi_a) || [];
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  my $fi_safe = _param('safe', %fi_a);
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  my $fi_ofh = _param('output', %fi_a);
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  my $fi_eval_package;
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  my $fi_scrub_package = 0;
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  my $fi_filename = _param('filename') || $fi_self->{FILENAME} || 'template';
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  my $fi_prepend = _param('prepend', %fi_a);
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  unless (defined $fi_prepend) {
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    $fi_prepend = $fi_self->prepend_text;
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  }
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  if (defined $fi_safe) {
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    $fi_eval_package = 'main';
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  } elsif (defined $fi_package) {
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    $fi_eval_package = $fi_package;
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  } elsif (defined $fi_varhash) {
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    $fi_eval_package = _gensym();
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    $fi_scrub_package = 1;
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  } else {
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    $fi_eval_package = caller;
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  }
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  my $fi_install_package;
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  if (defined $fi_varhash) {
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    if (defined $fi_package) {
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      $fi_install_package = $fi_package;
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    } elsif (defined $fi_safe) {
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      $fi_install_package = $fi_safe->root;
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    } else {
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      $fi_install_package = $fi_eval_package; # The gensymmed one
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    }
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    _install_hash($fi_varhash => $fi_install_package);
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  }
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  if (defined $fi_package && defined $fi_safe) {
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    no strict 'refs';
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    # Big fat magic here: Fix it so that the user-specified package
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    # is the default one available in the safe compartment.
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    *{$fi_safe->root . '::'} = \%{$fi_package . '::'};   # LOD
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  }
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  my $fi_r = '';
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  my $fi_item;
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  foreach $fi_item (@{$fi_self->{SOURCE}}) {
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    my ($fi_type, $fi_text, $fi_lineno) = @$fi_item;
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    if ($fi_type eq 'TEXT') {
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      if ($fi_ofh) {
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	print $fi_ofh $fi_text;
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      } else {
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	$fi_r .= $fi_text;
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      }
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    } elsif ($fi_type eq 'PROG') {
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      no strict;
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      my $fi_lcomment = "#line $fi_lineno $fi_filename";
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      my $fi_progtext = 
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        "package $fi_eval_package; $fi_prepend;\n$fi_lcomment\n$fi_text;";
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      my $fi_res;
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      my $fi_eval_err = '';
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      if ($fi_safe) {
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        $fi_safe->reval(q{undef $OUT});
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	$fi_res = $fi_safe->reval($fi_progtext);
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	$fi_eval_err = $@;
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	my $OUT = $fi_safe->reval('$OUT');
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	$fi_res = $OUT if defined $OUT;
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      } else {
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	my $OUT;
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	$fi_res = eval $fi_progtext;
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	$fi_eval_err = $@;
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	$fi_res = $OUT if defined $OUT;
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      }
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      # If the value of the filled-in text really was undef,
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      # change it to an explicit empty string to avoid undefined
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      # value warnings later.
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      $fi_res = '' unless defined $fi_res;
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      if ($fi_eval_err) {
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	$fi_res = $fi_broken->(text => $fi_text,
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			       error => $fi_eval_err,
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			       lineno => $fi_lineno,
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			       arg => $fi_broken_arg,
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			       );
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	if (defined $fi_res) {
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	  if (defined $fi_ofh) {
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	    print $fi_ofh $fi_res;
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	  } else {
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	    $fi_r .= $fi_res;
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	  }
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	} else {
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	  return $fi_res;		# Undefined means abort processing
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	}
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      } else {
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	if (defined $fi_ofh) {
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	  print $fi_ofh $fi_res;
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	} else {
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	  $fi_r .= $fi_res;
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	}
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      }
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    } else {
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      die "Can't happen error #2";
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    }
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  }
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  _scrubpkg($fi_eval_package) if $fi_scrub_package;
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  defined $fi_ofh ? 1 : $fi_r;
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}
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sub fill_this_in {
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  my $pack = shift;
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  my $text = shift;
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  my $templ = $pack->new(TYPE => 'STRING', SOURCE => $text, @_)
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    or return undef;
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  $templ->compile or return undef;
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  my $result = $templ->fill_in(@_);
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  $result;
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}
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sub fill_in_string {
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  my $string = shift;
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  my $package = _param('package', @_);
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  push @_, 'package' => scalar(caller) unless defined $package;
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  Text::Template->fill_this_in($string, @_);
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}
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sub fill_in_file {
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  my $fn = shift;
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  my $templ = Text::Template->new(TYPE => 'FILE', SOURCE => $fn, @_)
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    or return undef;
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  $templ->compile or return undef;
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  my $text = $templ->fill_in(@_);
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  $text;
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}
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sub _default_broken {
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  my %a = @_;
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  my $prog_text = $a{text};
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  my $err = $a{error};
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  my $lineno = $a{lineno};
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  chomp $err;
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#  $err =~ s/\s+at .*//s;
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  "Program fragment delivered error ``$err''";
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}
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sub _load_text {
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  my $fn = shift;
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  local *F;
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  unless (open F, $fn) {
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    $ERROR = "Couldn't open file $fn: $!";
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    return undef;
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  }
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  local $/;
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   404
  <F>;
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}
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   406
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sub _is_clean {
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  my $z;
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  eval { ($z = join('', @_)), eval '#' . substr($z,0,0); 1 }   # LOD
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}
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   411
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sub _unconditionally_untaint {
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  for (@_) {
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    ($_) = /(.*)/s;
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  }
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}
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   417
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{
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  my $seqno = 0;
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  sub _gensym {
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    __PACKAGE__ . '::GEN' . $seqno++;
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  }
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  sub _scrubpkg {
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    my $s = shift;
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    $s =~ s/^Text::Template:://;
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    no strict 'refs';
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    my $hash = $Text::Template::{$s."::"};
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    foreach my $key (keys %$hash) {
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      undef $hash->{$key};
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    }
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  }
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}
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# Given a hashful of variables (or a list of such hashes)
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# install the variables into the specified package,
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# overwriting whatever variables were there before.
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sub _install_hash {
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  my $hashlist = shift;
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  my $dest = shift;
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  if (UNIVERSAL::isa($hashlist, 'HASH')) {
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    $hashlist = [$hashlist];
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  }
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  my $hash;
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  foreach $hash (@$hashlist) {
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    my $name;
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    foreach $name (keys %$hash) {
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      my $val = $hash->{$name};
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      no strict 'refs';
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      local *SYM = *{"$ {dest}::$name"};
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      if (! defined $val) {
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	delete ${"$ {dest}::"}{$name};
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      } elsif (ref $val) {
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	*SYM = $val;
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      } else {
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 	*SYM = \$val;
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      }
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    }
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  }
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}
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sub TTerror { $ERROR }
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1;
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   465
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=head1 NAME
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   467
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Text::Template - Expand template text with embedded Perl
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   469
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=head1 VERSION
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This file documents C<Text::Template> version B<1.44>
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   473
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
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 use Text::Template;
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   478
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 $template = Text::Template->new(TYPE => 'FILE',  SOURCE => 'filename.tmpl');
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 $template = Text::Template->new(TYPE => 'ARRAY', SOURCE => [ ... ] );
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 $template = Text::Template->new(TYPE => 'FILEHANDLE', SOURCE => $fh );
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 $template = Text::Template->new(TYPE => 'STRING', SOURCE => '...' );
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 $template = Text::Template->new(PREPEND => q{use strict;}, ...);
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   484
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 # Use a different template file syntax:
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 $template = Text::Template->new(DELIMITERS => [$open, $close], ...);
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   487
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 $recipient = 'King';
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 $text = $template->fill_in();  # Replaces `{$recipient}' with `King'
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 print $text;
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   491
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 $T::recipient = 'Josh';
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 $text = $template->fill_in(PACKAGE => T);
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   494
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 # Pass many variables explicitly
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 $hash = { recipient => 'Abed-Nego',
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           friends => [ 'me', 'you' ],
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           enemies => { loathsome => 'Bill Gates',
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                        fearsome => 'Larry Ellison' },
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         };
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 $text = $template->fill_in(HASH => $hash, ...);
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 # $recipient is Abed-Nego,
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 # @friends is ( 'me', 'you' ),
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 # %enemies is ( loathsome => ..., fearsome => ... )
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   505
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   506
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 # Call &callback in case of programming errors in template
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 $text = $template->fill_in(BROKEN => \&callback, BROKEN_ARG => $ref, ...);
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   509
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 # Evaluate program fragments in Safe compartment with restricted permissions
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 $text = $template->fill_in(SAFE => $compartment, ...);
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   512
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 # Print result text instead of returning it
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 $success = $template->fill_in(OUTPUT => \*FILEHANDLE, ...);
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   515
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 # Parse template with different template file syntax:
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 $text = $template->fill_in(DELIMITERS => [$open, $close], ...);
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 # Note that this is *faster* than using the default delimiters
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   519
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 # Prepend specified perl code to each fragment before evaluating:
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 $text = $template->fill_in(PREPEND => q{use strict 'vars';}, ...);
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   522
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 use Text::Template 'fill_in_string';
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 $text = fill_in_string( <<EOM, PACKAGE => 'T', ...);
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   525
 Dear {$recipient},
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 Pay me at once.
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   527
        Love,
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   528
         G.V.
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   529
 EOM
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   530
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   531
 use Text::Template 'fill_in_file';
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 $text = fill_in_file($filename, ...);
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   533
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 # All templates will always have `use strict vars' attached to all fragments
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 Text::Template->always_prepend(q{use strict 'vars';});
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   536
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   537
=head1 DESCRIPTION
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   538
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   539
This is a library for generating form letters, building HTML pages, or
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filling in templates generally.  A `template' is a piece of text that
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has little Perl programs embedded in it here and there.  When you
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`fill in' a template, you evaluate the little programs and replace
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them with their values.
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   544
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   545
You can store a template in a file outside your program.  People can
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modify the template without modifying the program.  You can separate
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   547
the formatting details from the main code, and put the formatting
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   548
parts of the program into the template.  That prevents code bloat and
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encourages functional separation.
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=head2 Example
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   552
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Here's an example of a template, which we'll suppose is stored in the
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file C<formletter.tmpl>:
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   555
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	Dear {$title} {$lastname},
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parents:
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   557
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	It has come to our attention that you are delinquent in your
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	{$monthname[$last_paid_month]} payment.  Please remit
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	${sprintf("%.2f", $amount)} immediately, or your patellae may
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parents:
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   561
	be needlessly endangered.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   562
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   563
			Love,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   564
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   565
			Mark "Vizopteryx" Dominus
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   566
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   567
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   568
The result of filling in this template is a string, which might look
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   569
something like this:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   570
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   571
	Dear Mr. Gates,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   572
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   573
	It has come to our attention that you are delinquent in your
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   574
	February payment.  Please remit
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   575
	$392.12 immediately, or your patellae may
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   576
	be needlessly endangered.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   577
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   578
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   579
			Love,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   580
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   581
			Mark "Vizopteryx" Dominus
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   582
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   583
Here is a complete program that transforms the example
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   584
template into the example result, and prints it out:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   585
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   586
	use Text::Template;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   587
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   588
	my $template = Text::Template->new(SOURCE => 'formletter.tmpl')
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   589
	  or die "Couldn't construct template: $Text::Template::ERROR";
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   590
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   591
	my @monthname = qw(January February March April May June
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   592
                           July August September October November December);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   593
	my %vars = (title => 'Mr.',
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   594
		    firstname => 'Bill',
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   595
		    lastname => 'Gates',
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   596
		    last_paid_month => 1,   # February
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   597
		    amount => 392.12,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   598
		    monthname => \@monthname,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   599
		   );
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   600
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   601
	my $result = $template->fill_in(HASH => \%vars);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   602
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   603
	if (defined $result) { print $result }
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   604
	else { die "Couldn't fill in template: $Text::Template::ERROR" }
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   605
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   606
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   607
=head2 Philosophy
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   608
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   609
When people make a template module like this one, they almost always
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   610
start by inventing a special syntax for substitutions.  For example,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   611
they build it so that a string like C<%%VAR%%> is replaced with the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   612
value of C<$VAR>.  Then they realize the need extra formatting, so
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   613
they put in some special syntax for formatting.  Then they need a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   614
loop, so they invent a loop syntax.  Pretty soon they have a new
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   615
little template language.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   616
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   617
This approach has two problems: First, their little language is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   618
crippled. If you need to do something the author hasn't thought of,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   619
you lose.  Second: Who wants to learn another language?  You already
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   620
know Perl, so why not use it?
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   621
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   622
C<Text::Template> templates are programmed in I<Perl>.  You embed Perl
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   623
code in your template, with C<{> at the beginning and C<}> at the end.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   624
If you want a variable interpolated, you write it the way you would in
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   625
Perl.  If you need to make a loop, you can use any of the Perl loop
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   626
constructions.  All the Perl built-in functions are available.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   627
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   628
=head1 Details
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   629
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   630
=head2 Template Parsing
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   631
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   632
The C<Text::Template> module scans the template source.  An open brace
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   633
C<{> begins a program fragment, which continues until the matching
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   634
close brace C<}>.  When the template is filled in, the program
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   635
fragments are evaluated, and each one is replaced with the resulting
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   636
value to yield the text that is returned.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   637
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   638
A backslash C<\> in front of a brace (or another backslash that is in
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   639
front of a brace) escapes its special meaning.  The result of filling
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   640
out this template:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   641
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   642
	\{ The sum of 1 and 2 is {1+2}  \}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   643
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   644
is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   645
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   646
	{ The sum of 1 and 2 is 3  }
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   647
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   648
If you have an unmatched brace, C<Text::Template> will return a
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   649
failure code and a warning about where the problem is.  Backslashes
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   650
that do not precede a brace are passed through unchanged.  If you have
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   651
a template like this:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   652
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   653
	{ "String that ends in a newline.\n" }
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   654
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   655
The backslash inside the string is passed through to Perl unchanged,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   656
so the C<\n> really does turn into a newline.  See the note at the end
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   657
for details about the way backslashes work.  Backslash processing is
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   658
I<not> done when you specify alternative delimiters with the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   659
C<DELIMITERS> option.  (See L<"Alternative Delimiters">, below.)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   660
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   661
Each program fragment should be a sequence of Perl statements, which
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   662
are evaluated the usual way.  The result of the last statement
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   663
executed will be evaluted in scalar context; the result of this
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   664
statement is a string, which is interpolated into the template in
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   665
place of the program fragment itself.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   666
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   667
The fragments are evaluated in order, and side effects from earlier
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   668
fragments will persist into later fragments:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   669
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   670
	{$x = @things; ''}The Lord High Chamberlain has gotten {$x}
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   671
	things for me this year.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   672
	{ $diff = $x - 17;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   673
	  $more = 'more'
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   674
	  if ($diff == 0) {
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   675
	    $diff = 'no';
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   676
	  } elsif ($diff < 0) {
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   677
	    $more = 'fewer';
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parents:
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   678
	  }
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parents:
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   679
          '';
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parents:
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   680
	}
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parents:
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   681
	That is {$diff} {$more} than he gave me last year.
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parents:
diff changeset
   682
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parents:
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   683
The value of C<$x> set in the first line will persist into the next
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parents:
diff changeset
   684
fragment that begins on the third line, and the values of C<$diff> and
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parents:
diff changeset
   685
C<$more> set in the second fragment will persist and be interpolated
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parents:
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   686
into the last line.  The output will look something like this:
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parents:
diff changeset
   687
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parents:
diff changeset
   688
	The Lord High Chamberlain has gotten 42
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parents:
diff changeset
   689
	things for me this year.
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parents:
diff changeset
   690
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parents:
diff changeset
   691
	That is 25 more than he gave me last year.
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parents:
diff changeset
   692
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parents:
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   693
That is all the syntax there is.
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parents:
diff changeset
   694
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parents:
diff changeset
   695
=head2 The C<$OUT> variable
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parents:
diff changeset
   696
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parents:
diff changeset
   697
There is one special trick you can play in a template.  Here is the
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   698
motivation for it:  Suppose you are going to pass an array, C<@items>,
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parents:
diff changeset
   699
into the template, and you want the template to generate a bulleted
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parents:
diff changeset
   700
list with a header, like this:
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parents:
diff changeset
   701
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parents:
diff changeset
   702
	Here is a list of the things I have got for you since 1907:
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parents:
diff changeset
   703
	  * Ivory
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parents:
diff changeset
   704
	  * Apes
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parents:
diff changeset
   705
	  * Peacocks
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parents:
diff changeset
   706
	  * ...
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parents:
diff changeset
   707
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parents:
diff changeset
   708
One way to do it is with a template like this:
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parents:
diff changeset
   709
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parents:
diff changeset
   710
	Here is a list of the things I have got for you since 1907:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   711
	{ my $blist = '';
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parents:
diff changeset
   712
          foreach $i (@items) {
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parents:
diff changeset
   713
            $blist .= qq{  * $i\n};
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parents:
diff changeset
   714
          }
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parents:
diff changeset
   715
          $blist;
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parents:
diff changeset
   716
        }
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parents:
diff changeset
   717
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parents:
diff changeset
   718
Here we construct the list in a variable called C<$blist>, which we
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parents:
diff changeset
   719
return at the end.  This is a little cumbersome.  There is a shortcut.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   720
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parents:
diff changeset
   721
Inside of templates, there is a special variable called C<$OUT>.
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parents:
diff changeset
   722
Anything you append to this variable will appear in the output of the
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parents:
diff changeset
   723
template.  Also, if you use C<$OUT> in a program fragment, the normal
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   724
behavior, of replacing the fragment with its return value, is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   725
disabled; instead the fragment is replaced with the value of C<$OUT>.
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parents:
diff changeset
   726
This means that you can write the template above like this:
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parents:
diff changeset
   727
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parents:
diff changeset
   728
	Here is a list of the things I have got for you since 1907:
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parents:
diff changeset
   729
	{ foreach $i (@items) {
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parents:
diff changeset
   730
            $OUT .= "  * $i\n";
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parents:
diff changeset
   731
          }
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parents:
diff changeset
   732
        }
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parents:
diff changeset
   733
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   734
C<$OUT> is reinitialized to the empty string at the start of each
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parents:
diff changeset
   735
program fragment.  It is private to C<Text::Template>, so
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parents:
diff changeset
   736
you can't use a variable named C<$OUT> in your template without
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   737
invoking the special behavior.
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parents:
diff changeset
   738
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parents:
diff changeset
   739
=head2 General Remarks
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parents:
diff changeset
   740
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parents:
diff changeset
   741
All C<Text::Template> functions return C<undef> on failure, and set the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   742
variable C<$Text::Template::ERROR> to contain an explanation of what
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   743
went wrong.  For example, if you try to create a template from a file
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   744
that does not exist, C<$Text::Template::ERROR> will contain something like:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   745
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parents:
diff changeset
   746
	Couldn't open file xyz.tmpl: No such file or directory
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   747
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parents:
diff changeset
   748
=head2 C<new>
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parents:
diff changeset
   749
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parents:
diff changeset
   750
	$template = new Text::Template ( TYPE => ..., SOURCE => ... );
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parents:
diff changeset
   751
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parents:
diff changeset
   752
This creates and returns a new template object.  C<new> returns
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   753
C<undef> and sets C<$Text::Template::ERROR> if it can't create the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   754
template object.  C<SOURCE> says where the template source code will
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   755
come from.  C<TYPE> says what kind of object the source is.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   756
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parents:
diff changeset
   757
The most common type of source is a file:
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parents:
diff changeset
   758
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parents:
diff changeset
   759
	new Text::Template ( TYPE => 'FILE', SOURCE => $filename );
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   760
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   761
This reads the template from the specified file.  The filename is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   762
opened with the Perl C<open> command, so it can be a pipe or anything
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   763
else that makes sense with C<open>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   764
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   765
The C<TYPE> can also be C<STRING>, in which case the C<SOURCE> should
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   766
be a string:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   767
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   768
	new Text::Template ( TYPE => 'STRING',
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parents:
diff changeset
   769
                             SOURCE => "This is the actual template!" );
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parents:
diff changeset
   770
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   771
The C<TYPE> can be C<ARRAY>, in which case the source should be a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   772
reference to an array of strings.  The concatenation of these strings
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   773
is the template:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   774
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   775
	new Text::Template ( TYPE => 'ARRAY',
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   776
                             SOURCE => [ "This is ", "the actual",
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parents:
diff changeset
   777
                                         " template!",
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   778
                                       ]
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parents:
diff changeset
   779
                           );
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   780
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   781
The C<TYPE> can be FILEHANDLE, in which case the source should be an
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   782
open filehandle (such as you got from the C<FileHandle> or C<IO::*>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   783
packages, or a glob, or a reference to a glob).  In this case
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   784
C<Text::Template> will read the text from the filehandle up to
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   785
end-of-file, and that text is the template:
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   786
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   787
	# Read template source code from STDIN:
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   788
	new Text::Template ( TYPE => 'FILEHANDLE',
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   789
                             SOURCE => \*STDIN  );
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   790
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parents:
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   791
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   792
If you omit the C<TYPE> attribute, it's taken to be C<FILE>.
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   793
C<SOURCE> is required.  If you omit it, the program will abort.
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parents:
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   794
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   795
The words C<TYPE> and C<SOURCE> can be spelled any of the following ways:
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   796
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   797
	TYPE	SOURCE
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   798
	Type	Source
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   799
	type	source
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   800
	-TYPE	-SOURCE
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   801
	-Type	-Source
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parents:
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   802
	-type	-source
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parents:
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   803
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parents:
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   804
Pick a style you like and stick with it.
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parents:
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   805
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parents:
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   806
=over 4
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   807
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   808
=item C<DELIMITERS>
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   809
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   810
You may also add a C<DELIMITERS> option.  If this option is present,
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   811
its value should be a reference to an array of two strings.  The first
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parents:
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   812
string is the string that signals the beginning of each program
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parents:
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   813
fragment, and the second string is the string that signals the end of
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parents:
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   814
each program fragment.  See L<"Alternative Delimiters">, below.
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parents:
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   815
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parents:
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   816
=item C<UNTAINT>
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   817
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parents:
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   818
If your program is running in taint mode, you may have problems if
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parents:
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   819
your templates are stored in files.  Data read from files is
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parents:
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   820
considered 'untrustworthy', and taint mode will not allow you to
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parents:
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   821
evaluate the Perl code in the file.  (It is afraid that a malicious
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parents:
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   822
person might have tampered with the file.)
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parents:
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   823
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   824
In some environments, however, local files are trustworthy.  You can
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parents:
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   825
tell C<Text::Template> that a certain file is trustworthy by supplying
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parents:
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   826
C<UNTAINT =E<gt> 1> in the call to C<new>.  This will tell
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parents:
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   827
C<Text::Template> to disable taint checks on template code that has
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parents:
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   828
come from a file, as long as the filename itself is considered
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parents:
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   829
trustworthy.  It will also disable taint checks on template code that
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parents:
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   830
comes from a filehandle.  When used with C<TYPE =E<gt> 'string'> or C<TYPE
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parents:
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   831
=E<gt> 'array'>, it has no effect.
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parents:
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   832
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parents:
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   833
See L<perlsec> for more complete information about tainting.
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parents:
diff changeset
   834
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   835
Thanks to Steve Palincsar, Gerard Vreeswijk, and Dr. Christoph Baehr
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parents:
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   836
for help with this feature.
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parents:
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   837
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parents:
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   838
=item C<PREPEND>
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   839
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parents:
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   840
This option is passed along to the C<fill_in> call unless it is
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parents:
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   841
overridden in the arguments to C<fill_in>.  See L<C<PREPEND> feature
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parents:
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   842
and using C<strict> in templates> below.
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parents:
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   843
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parents:
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   844
=item C<BROKEN>
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   845
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parents:
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   846
This option is passed along to the C<fill_in> call unless it is
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parents:
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   847
overridden in the arguments to C<fill_in>.  See L<C<BROKEN>> below.
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parents:
diff changeset
   848
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parents:
diff changeset
   849
=back
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parents:
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   850
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parents:
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   851
=head2 C<compile>
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parents:
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   852
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parents:
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   853
	$template->compile()
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parents:
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   854
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   855
Loads all the template text from the template's source, parses and
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parents:
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   856
compiles it.  If successful, returns true; otherwise returns false and
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parents:
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   857
sets C<$Text::Template::ERROR>.  If the template is already compiled,
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parents:
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   858
it returns true and does nothing.
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parents:
diff changeset
   859
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parents:
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   860
You don't usually need to invoke this function, because C<fill_in>
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parents:
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   861
(see below) compiles the template if it isn't compiled already.
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parents:
diff changeset
   862
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parents:
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   863
If there is an argument to this function, it must be a reference to an
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parents:
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   864
array containing alternative delimiter strings.  See C<"Alternative
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parents:
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   865
Delimiters">, below.
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parents:
diff changeset
   866
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parents:
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   867
=head2 C<fill_in>
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parents:
diff changeset
   868
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parents:
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   869
	$template->fill_in(OPTIONS);
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parents:
diff changeset
   870
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parents:
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   871
Fills in a template.  Returns the resulting text if successful.
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parents:
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   872
Otherwise, returns C<undef>  and sets C<$Text::Template::ERROR>.
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parents:
diff changeset
   873
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parents:
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   874
The I<OPTIONS> are a hash, or a list of key-value pairs.  You can
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parents:
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   875
write the key names in any of the six usual styles as above; this
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parents:
diff changeset
   876
means that where this manual says C<PACKAGE> (for example) you can
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parents:
diff changeset
   877
actually use any of
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parents:
diff changeset
   878
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parents:
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   879
	PACKAGE Package package -PACKAGE -Package -package
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parents:
diff changeset
   880
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parents:
diff changeset
   881
Pick a style you like and stick with it.  The all-lowercase versions
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parents:
diff changeset
   882
may yield spurious warnings about
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parents:
diff changeset
   883
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parents:
diff changeset
   884
	Ambiguous use of package => resolved to "package"
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parents:
diff changeset
   885
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parents:
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   886
so you might like to avoid them and use the capitalized versions.
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parents:
diff changeset
   887
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parents:
diff changeset
   888
At present, there are eight legal options:  C<PACKAGE>, C<BROKEN>,
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parents:
diff changeset
   889
C<BROKEN_ARG>, C<SAFE>, C<HASH>, C<OUTPUT>, and C<DELIMITERS>.
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parents:
diff changeset
   890
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parents:
diff changeset
   891
=over 4
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parents:
diff changeset
   892
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parents:
diff changeset
   893
=item C<PACKAGE>
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parents:
diff changeset
   894
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parents:
diff changeset
   895
C<PACKAGE> specifies the name of a package in which the program
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parents:
diff changeset
   896
fragments should be evaluated.  The default is to use the package from
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parents:
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   897
which C<fill_in> was called.  For example, consider this template:
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   898
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   899
	The value of the variable x is {$x}.
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parents:
diff changeset
   900
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parents:
diff changeset
   901
If you use C<$template-E<gt>fill_in(PACKAGE =E<gt> 'R')> , then the C<$x> in
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parents:
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   902
the template is actually replaced with the value of C<$R::x>.  If you
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parents:
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   903
omit the C<PACKAGE> option, C<$x> will be replaced with the value of
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parents:
diff changeset
   904
the C<$x> variable in the package that actually called C<fill_in>.
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parents:
diff changeset
   905
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parents:
diff changeset
   906
You should almost always use C<PACKAGE>.  If you don't, and your
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parents:
diff changeset
   907
template makes changes to variables, those changes will be propagated
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parents:
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   908
back into the main program.  Evaluating the template in a private
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parents:
diff changeset
   909
package helps prevent this.  The template can still modify variables
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parents:
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   910
in your program if it wants to, but it will have to do so explicitly.
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parents:
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   911
See the section at the end on `Security'.
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parents:
diff changeset
   912
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parents:
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   913
Here's an example of using C<PACKAGE>:
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parents:
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   914
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parents:
diff changeset
   915
	Your Royal Highness,
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parents:
diff changeset
   916
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parents:
diff changeset
   917
	Enclosed please find a list of things I have gotten
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parents:
diff changeset
   918
	for you since 1907:
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parents:
diff changeset
   919
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parents:
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   920
	{ foreach $item (@items) {
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parents:
diff changeset
   921
            $item_no++;
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parents:
diff changeset
   922
	    $OUT .= " $item_no. \u$item\n";
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parents:
diff changeset
   923
	  }
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parents:
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   924
	}
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parents:
diff changeset
   925
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parents:
diff changeset
   926
	Signed,
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parents:
diff changeset
   927
	Lord High Chamberlain
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parents:
diff changeset
   928
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parents:
diff changeset
   929
We want to pass in an array which will be assigned to the array
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parents:
diff changeset
   930
C<@items>.  Here's how to do that:
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parents:
diff changeset
   931
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parents:
diff changeset
   932
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parents:
diff changeset
   933
	@items = ('ivory', 'apes', 'peacocks', );
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parents:
diff changeset
   934
	$template->fill_in();
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parents:
diff changeset
   935
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parents:
diff changeset
   936
This is not very safe.  The reason this isn't as safe is that if you
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parents:
diff changeset
   937
had a variable named C<$item_no> in scope in your program at the point
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parents:
diff changeset
   938
you called C<fill_in>, its value would be clobbered by the act of
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parents:
diff changeset
   939
filling out the template.  The problem is the same as if you had
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parents:
diff changeset
   940
written a subroutine that used those variables in the same way that
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parents:
diff changeset
   941
the template does.  (C<$OUT> is special in templates and is always
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parents:
diff changeset
   942
safe.)
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parents:
diff changeset
   943
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parents:
diff changeset
   944
One solution to this is to make the C<$item_no> variable private to the
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parents:
diff changeset
   945
template by declaring it with C<my>.  If the template does this, you
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parents:
diff changeset
   946
are safe.
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parents:
diff changeset
   947
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parents:
diff changeset
   948
But if you use the C<PACKAGE> option, you will probably be safe even
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parents:
diff changeset
   949
if the template does I<not> declare its variables with C<my>:
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parents:
diff changeset
   950
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parents:
diff changeset
   951
	@Q::items = ('ivory', 'apes', 'peacocks', );
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parents:
diff changeset
   952
	$template->fill_in(PACKAGE => 'Q');
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parents:
diff changeset
   953
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parents:
diff changeset
   954
In this case the template will clobber the variable C<$Q::item_no>,
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parents:
diff changeset
   955
which is not related to the one your program was using.
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parents:
diff changeset
   956
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parents:
diff changeset
   957
Templates cannot affect variables in the main program that are
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parents:
diff changeset
   958
declared with C<my>, unless you give the template references to those
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parents:
diff changeset
   959
variables.
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parents:
diff changeset
   960
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parents:
diff changeset
   961
=item C<HASH>
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parents:
diff changeset
   962
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parents:
diff changeset
   963
You may not want to put the template variables into a package.
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parents:
diff changeset
   964
Packages can be hard to manage:  You can't copy them, for example.
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parents:
diff changeset
   965
C<HASH> provides an alternative.
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parents:
diff changeset
   966
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parents:
diff changeset
   967
The value for C<HASH> should be a reference to a hash that maps
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parents:
diff changeset
   968
variable names to values.  For example,
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parents:
diff changeset
   969
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parents:
diff changeset
   970
	$template->fill_in(HASH => { recipient => "The King",
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parents:
diff changeset
   971
				     items => ['gold', 'frankincense', 'myrrh'],
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parents:
diff changeset
   972
	                             object => \$self,
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parents:
diff changeset
   973
				   });
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parents:
diff changeset
   974
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parents:
diff changeset
   975
will fill out the template and use C<"The King"> as the value of
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parents:
diff changeset
   976
C<$recipient> and the list of items as the value of C<@items>.  Note
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parents:
diff changeset
   977
that we pass an array reference, but inside the template it appears as
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parents:
diff changeset
   978
an array.  In general, anything other than a simple string or number
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parents:
diff changeset
   979
should be passed by reference.
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parents:
diff changeset
   980
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parents:
diff changeset
   981
We also want to pass an object, which is in C<$self>; note that we
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parents:
diff changeset
   982
pass a reference to the object, C<\$self> instead.  Since we've passed
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parents:
diff changeset
   983
a reference to a scalar, inside the template the object appears as
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parents:
diff changeset
   984
C<$object>.  
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parents:
diff changeset
   985
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   986
The full details of how it works are a little involved, so you might
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   987
want to skip to the next section.
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parents:
diff changeset
   988
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parents:
diff changeset
   989
Suppose the key in the hash is I<key> and the value is I<value>.
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parents:
diff changeset
   990
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parents:
diff changeset
   991
=over 4
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parents:
diff changeset
   992
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parents:
diff changeset
   993
=item *
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parents:
diff changeset
   994
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parents:
diff changeset
   995
If the I<value> is C<undef>, then any variables named C<$key>,
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parents:
diff changeset
   996
C<@key>, C<%key>, etc., are undefined.
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parents:
diff changeset
   997
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parents:
diff changeset
   998
=item *
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parents:
diff changeset
   999
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parents:
diff changeset
  1000
If the I<value> is a string or a number, then C<$key> is set to that
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parents:
diff changeset
  1001
value in the template.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1002
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parents:
diff changeset
  1003
=item *
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parents:
diff changeset
  1004
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parents:
diff changeset
  1005
For anything else, you must pass a reference.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1006
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parents:
diff changeset
  1007
If the I<value> is a reference to an array, then C<@key> is set to
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1008
that array.  If the I<value> is a reference to a hash, then C<%key> is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1009
set to that hash.  Similarly if I<value> is any other kind of
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parents:
diff changeset
  1010
reference.  This means that
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parents:
diff changeset
  1011
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parents:
diff changeset
  1012
	var => "foo"
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parents:
diff changeset
  1013
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parents:
diff changeset
  1014
and
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parents:
diff changeset
  1015
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parents:
diff changeset
  1016
	var => \"foo"
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1017
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parents:
diff changeset
  1018
have almost exactly the same effect.  (The difference is that in the
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parents:
diff changeset
  1019
former case, the value is copied, and in the latter case it is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1020
aliased.)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1021
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parents:
diff changeset
  1022
=item *
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parents:
diff changeset
  1023
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parents:
diff changeset
  1024
In particular, if you want the template to get an object or any kind,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1025
you must pass a reference to it:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1026
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parents:
diff changeset
  1027
	$template->fill_in(HASH => { database_handle => \$dbh, ... });
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1028
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1029
If you do this, the template will have a variable C<$database_handle>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1030
which is the database handle object.  If you leave out the C<\>, the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1031
template will have a hash C<%database_handle>, which exposes the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1032
internal structure of the database handle object; you don't want that.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1033
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1034
=back
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parents:
diff changeset
  1035
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1036
Normally, the way this works is by allocating a private package,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1037
loading all the variables into the package, and then filling out the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1038
template as if you had specified that package.  A new package is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1039
allocated each time.  However, if you I<also> use the C<PACKAGE>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1040
option, C<Text::Template> loads the variables into the package you
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1041
specified, and they stay there after the call returns.  Subsequent
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1042
calls to C<fill_in> that use the same package will pick up the values
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1043
you loaded in.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1044
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1045
If the argument of C<HASH> is a reference to an array instead of a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1046
reference to a hash, then the array should contain a list of hashes
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1047
whose contents are loaded into the template package one after the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1048
other.  You can use this feature if you want to combine several sets
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1049
of variables.  For example, one set of variables might be the defaults
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1050
for a fill-in form, and the second set might be the user inputs, which
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1051
override the defaults when they are present:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1052
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1053
	$template->fill_in(HASH => [\%defaults, \%user_input]);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1054
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1055
You can also use this to set two variables with the same name:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1056
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1057
	$template->fill_in(HASH => [{ v => "The King" },
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1058
                                    { v => [1,2,3] },
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1059
	                           ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1060
                          );
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1061
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1062
This sets C<$v> to C<"The King"> and C<@v> to C<(1,2,3)>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1063
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1064
=item C<BROKEN>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1065
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1066
If any of the program fragments fails to compile or aborts for any
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1067
reason, and you have set the C<BROKEN> option to a function reference,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1068
C<Text::Template> will invoke the function.  This function is called
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1069
the I<C<BROKEN> function>.  The C<BROKEN> function will tell
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1070
C<Text::Template> what to do next.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1071
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1072
If the C<BROKEN> function returns C<undef>, C<Text::Template> will
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1073
immediately abort processing the template and return the text that it
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1074
has accumulated so far.  If your function does this, it should set a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1075
flag that you can examine after C<fill_in> returns so that you can
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1076
tell whether there was a premature return or not.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1077
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1078
If the C<BROKEN> function returns any other value, that value will be
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1079
interpolated into the template as if that value had been the return
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1080
value of the program fragment to begin with.  For example, if the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1081
C<BROKEN> function returns an error string, the error string will be
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1082
interpolated into the output of the template in place of the program
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1083
fragment that cased the error.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1084
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1085
If you don't specify a C<BROKEN> function, C<Text::Template> supplies
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1086
a default one that returns something like
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1087
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1088
	Program fragment delivered error ``Illegal division by 0 at
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1089
	template line 37''
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1090
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1091
(Note that the format of this message has changed slightly since
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1092
version 1.31.)  The return value of the C<BROKEN> function is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1093
interpolated into the template at the place the error occurred, so
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1094
that this template:
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parents:
diff changeset
  1095
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1096
	(3+4)*5 = { 3+4)*5 }
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1097
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1098
yields this result:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1099
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1100
	(3+4)*5 = Program fragment delivered error ``syntax error at template line 1''
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1101
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1102
If you specify a value for the C<BROKEN> attribute, it should be a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1103
reference to a function that C<fill_in> can call instead of the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1104
default function.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1105
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1106
C<fill_in> will pass a hash to the C<broken> function.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1107
The hash will have at least these three members:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1108
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1109
=over 4
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1110
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1111
=item C<text>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1112
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1113
The source code of the program fragment that failed
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1114
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1115
=item C<error>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1116
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1117
The text of the error message (C<$@>) generated by eval.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1118
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1119
The text has been modified to omit the trailing newline and to include
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1120
the name of the template file (if there was one).  The line number
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parents:
diff changeset
  1121
counts from the beginning of the template, not from the beginning of
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1122
the failed program fragment.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1123
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1124
=item C<lineno>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1125
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1126
The line number of the template at which the program fragment began.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1127
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1128
=back
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1129
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1130
There may also be an C<arg> member.  See C<BROKEN_ARG>, below
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1131
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1132
=item C<BROKEN_ARG>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1133
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1134
If you supply the C<BROKEN_ARG> option to C<fill_in>, the value of the
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1135
option is passed to the C<BROKEN> function whenever it is called.  The
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1136
default C<BROKEN> function ignores the C<BROKEN_ARG>, but you can
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1137
write a custom C<BROKEN> function that uses the C<BROKEN_ARG> to get
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1138
more information about what went wrong.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1139
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1140
The C<BROKEN> function could also use the C<BROKEN_ARG> as a reference
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1141
to store an error message or some other information that it wants to
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1142
communicate back to the caller.  For example:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1143
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1144
	$error = '';
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1145
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1146
	sub my_broken {
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1147
	   my %args = @_;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1148
	   my $err_ref = $args{arg};
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1149
	   ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1150
	   $$err_ref = "Some error message";
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1151
	   return undef;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1152
	}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1153
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1154
	$template->fill_in(BROKEN => \&my_broken,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1155
			   BROKEN_ARG => \$error,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1156
			  );
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1157
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1158
	if ($error) {
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1159
	  die "It didn't work: $error";
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1160
	}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1161
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1162
If one of the program fragments in the template fails, it will call
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1163
the C<BROKEN> function, C<my_broken>, and pass it the C<BROKEN_ARG>,
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1164
which is a reference to C<$error>.  C<my_broken> can store an error
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1165
message into C<$error> this way.  Then the function that called
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1166
C<fill_in> can see if C<my_broken> has left an error message for it
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1167
to find, and proceed accordingly.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1168
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1169
=item C<SAFE>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1170
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1171
If you give C<fill_in> a C<SAFE> option, its value should be a safe
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1172
compartment object from the C<Safe> package.  All evaluation of
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1173
program fragments will be performed in this compartment.  See L<Safe>
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1174
for full details about such compartments and how to restrict the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1175
operations that can be performed in them.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1176
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1177
If you use the C<PACKAGE> option with C<SAFE>, the package you specify
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1178
will be placed into the safe compartment and evaluation will take
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1179
place in that package as usual.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1180
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1181
If not, C<SAFE> operation is a little different from the default.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1182
Usually, if you don't specify a package, evaluation of program
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1183
fragments occurs in the package from which the template was invoked.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1184
But in C<SAFE> mode the evaluation occurs inside the safe compartment
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1185
and cannot affect the calling package.  Normally, if you use C<HASH>
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1186
without C<PACKAGE>, the hash variables are imported into a private,
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1187
one-use-only package.  But if you use C<HASH> and C<SAFE> together
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1188
without C<PACKAGE>, the hash variables will just be loaded into the
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1189
root namespace of the C<Safe> compartment.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1190
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1191
=item C<OUTPUT>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1192
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1193
If your template is going to generate a lot of text that you are just
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1194
going to print out again anyway,  you can save memory by having
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1195
C<Text::Template> print out the text as it is generated instead of
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1196
making it into a big string and returning the string.  If you supply
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1197
the C<OUTPUT> option to C<fill_in>, the value should be a filehandle.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1198
The generated text will be printed to this filehandle as it is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1199
constructed.  For example:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1200
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1201
	$template->fill_in(OUTPUT => \*STDOUT, ...);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1202
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1203
fills in the C<$template> as usual, but the results are immediately
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1204
printed to STDOUT.  This may result in the output appearing more
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1205
quickly than it would have otherwise.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1206
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1207
If you use C<OUTPUT>, the return value from C<fill_in> is still true on
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1208
success and false on failure, but the complete text is not returned to
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1209
the caller.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1210
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1211
=item C<PREPEND>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1212
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1213
You can have some Perl code prepended automatically to the beginning
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1214
of every program fragment.  See L<C<PREPEND> feature and using
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1215
C<strict> in templates> below.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1216
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1217
=item C<DELIMITERS>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1218
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1219
If this option is present, its value should be a reference to a list
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1220
of two strings.  The first string is the string that signals the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1221
beginning of each program fragment, and the second string is the
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1222
string that signals the end of each program fragment.  See
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1223
L<"Alternative Delimiters">, below.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1224
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1225
If you specify C<DELIMITERS> in the call to C<fill_in>, they override
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1226
any delimiters you set when you created the template object with
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1227
C<new>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1228
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1229
=back
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1230
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parents:
diff changeset
  1231
=head1 Convenience Functions
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parents:
diff changeset
  1232
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1233
=head2 C<fill_this_in>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1234
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1235
The basic way to fill in a template is to create a template object and
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1236
then call C<fill_in> on it.   This is useful if you want to fill in
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1237
the same template more than once.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1238
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1239
In some programs, this can be cumbersome.  C<fill_this_in> accepts a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1240
string, which contains the template, and a list of options, which are
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1241
passed to C<fill_in> as above.  It constructs the template object for
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1242
you, fills it in as specified, and returns the results.  It returns
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1243
C<undef> and sets C<$Text::Template::ERROR> if it couldn't generate
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1244
any results.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1245
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1246
An example:
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parents:
diff changeset
  1247
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1248
	$Q::name = 'Donald';
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1249
	$Q::amount = 141.61;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1250
	$Q::part = 'hyoid bone';
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1251
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1252
	$text = Text::Template->fill_this_in( <<'EOM', PACKAGE => Q);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1253
	Dear {$name},
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1254
	You owe me \\${sprintf('%.2f', $amount)}.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1255
	Pay or I will break your {$part}.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1256
		Love,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1257
		Grand Vizopteryx of Irkutsk.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1258
	EOM
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1259
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1260
Notice how we included the template in-line in the program by using a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1261
`here document' with the C<E<lt>E<lt>> notation.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1262
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1263
C<fill_this_in> is a deprecated feature.  It is only here for
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1264
backwards compatibility, and may be removed in some far-future version
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1265
in C<Text::Template>.  You should use C<fill_in_string> instead.  It
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1266
is described in the next section.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1267
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1268
=head2 C<fill_in_string>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1269
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1270
It is stupid that C<fill_this_in> is a class method.  It should have
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1271
been just an imported function, so that you could omit the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1272
C<Text::Template-E<gt>> in the example above.  But I made the mistake
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1273
four years ago and it is too late to change it.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1274
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1275
C<fill_in_string> is exactly like C<fill_this_in> except that it is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1276
not a method and you can omit the C<Text::Template-E<gt>> and just say
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1277
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1278
	print fill_in_string(<<'EOM', ...);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1279
	Dear {$name},
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1280
	  ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1281
	EOM
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1282
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1283
To use C<fill_in_string>, you need to say
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1284
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1285
	use Text::Template 'fill_in_string';
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1286
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1287
at the top of your program.   You should probably use
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1288
C<fill_in_string> instead of C<fill_this_in>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1289
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1290
=head2 C<fill_in_file>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1291
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1292
If you import C<fill_in_file>, you can say
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1293
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1294
	$text = fill_in_file(filename, ...);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1295
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1296
The C<...> are passed to C<fill_in> as above.  The filename is the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1297
name of the file that contains the template you want to fill in.  It
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1298
returns the result text. or C<undef>, as usual.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1299
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1300
If you are going to fill in the same file more than once in the same
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1301
program you should use the longer C<new> / C<fill_in> sequence instead.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1302
It will be a lot faster because it only has to read and parse the file
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1303
once.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1304
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1305
=head2 Including files into templates
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1306
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1307
People always ask for this.  ``Why don't you have an include
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1308
function?'' they want to know.  The short answer is this is Perl, and
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1309
Perl already has an include function.  If you want it, you can just put
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1310
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1311
	{qx{cat filename}}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1312
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1313
into your template.  VoilE<agrave>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1314
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1315
If you don't want to use C<cat>, you can write a little four-line
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1316
function that opens a file and dumps out its contents, and call it
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1317
from the template.  I wrote one for you.  In the template, you can say
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1318
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1319
	{Text::Template::_load_text(filename)}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1320
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1321
If that is too verbose, here is a trick.  Suppose the template package
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1322
that you are going to be mentioning in the C<fill_in> call is package
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1323
C<Q>.  Then in the main program, write
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1324
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1325
	*Q::include = \&Text::Template::_load_text;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1326
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1327
This imports the C<_load_text> function into package C<Q> with the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1328
name C<include>.  From then on, any template that you fill in with
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1329
package C<Q> can say
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1330
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1331
	{include(filename)}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1332
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1333
to insert the text from the named file at that point.  If you are
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1334
using the C<HASH> option instead, just put C<include =E<gt>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1335
\&Text::Template::_load_text> into the hash instead of importing it
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1336
explicitly.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1337
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1338
Suppose you don't want to insert a plain text file, but rather you
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1339
want to include one template within another?  Just use C<fill_in_file>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1340
in the template itself:
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parents:
diff changeset
  1341
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1342
	{Text::Template::fill_in_file(filename)}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1343
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1344
You can do the same importing trick if this is too much to type.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1345
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1346
=head1 Miscellaneous
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1347
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1348
=head2 C<my> variables
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1349
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1350
People are frequently surprised when this doesn't work:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1351
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1352
	my $recipient = 'The King';
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1353
	my $text = fill_in_file('formletter.tmpl');
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1354
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1355
The text C<The King> doesn't get into the form letter.  Why not?
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1356
Because C<$recipient> is a C<my> variable, and the whole point of
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1357
C<my> variables is that they're private and inaccessible except in the
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1358
scope in which they're declared.  The template is not part of that
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1359
scope, so the template can't see C<$recipient>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1360
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1361
If that's not the behavior you want, don't use C<my>.  C<my> means a
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1362
private variable, and in this case you don't want the variable to be
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1363
private.  Put the variables into package variables in some other
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1364
package, and use the C<PACKAGE> option to C<fill_in>:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1365
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1366
	$Q::recipient = $recipient;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1367
	my $text = fill_in_file('formletter.tmpl', PACKAGE => 'Q');
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1368
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1369
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1370
or pass the names and values in a hash with the C<HASH> option:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1371
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1372
	my $text = fill_in_file('formletter.tmpl', HASH => { recipient => $recipient });
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1373
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1374
=head2 Security Matters
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1375
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1376
All variables are evaluated in the package you specify with the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1377
C<PACKAGE> option of C<fill_in>.  if you use this option, and if your
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1378
templates don't do anything egregiously stupid, you won't have to
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1379
worry that evaluation of the little programs will creep out into the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1380
rest of your program and wreck something.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1381
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1382
Nevertheless, there's really no way (except with C<Safe>) to protect
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1383
against a template that says
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1384
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1385
	{ $Important::Secret::Security::Enable = 0;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1386
	  # Disable security checks in this program
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1387
	}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1388
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1389
or
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1390
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1391
	{ $/ = "ho ho ho";   # Sabotage future uses of <FH>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1392
	  # $/ is always a global variable
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1393
	}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1394
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1395
or even
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1396
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1397
	{ system("rm -rf /") }
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1398
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1399
so B<don't> go filling in templates unless you're sure you know what's
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1400
in them.  If you're worried, or you can't trust the person who wrote
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1401
the template, use the C<SAFE> option.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1402
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1403
A final warning: program fragments run a small risk of accidentally
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1404
clobbering local variables in the C<fill_in> function itself.  These
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1405
variables all have names that begin with C<$fi_>, so if you stay away
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1406
from those names you'll be safe.  (Of course, if you're a real wizard
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1407
you can tamper with them deliberately for exciting effects; this is
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1408
actually how C<$OUT> works.)  I can fix this, but it will make the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1409
package slower to do it, so I would prefer not to.  If you are worried
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1410
about this, send me mail and I will show you what to do about it.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1411
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1412
=head2 Alternative Delimiters
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1413
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1414
Lorenzo Valdettaro pointed out that if you are using C<Text::Template>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1415
to generate TeX output, the choice of braces as the program fragment
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1416
delimiters makes you suffer suffer suffer.  Starting in version 1.20,
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1417
you can change the choice of delimiters to something other than curly
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1418
braces.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1419
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1420
In either the C<new()> call or the C<fill_in()> call, you can specify
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1421
an alternative set of delimiters with the C<DELIMITERS> option.  For
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1422
example, if you would like code fragments to be delimited by C<[@-->
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1423
and C<--@]> instead of C<{> and C<}>, use
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1424
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1425
	... DELIMITERS => [ '[@--', '--@]' ], ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1426
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1427
Note that these delimiters are I<literal strings>, not regexes.  (I
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1428
tried for regexes, but it complicates the lexical analysis too much.)
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1429
Note also that C<DELIMITERS> disables the special meaning of the
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1430
backslash, so if you want to include the delimiters in the literal
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1431
text of your template file, you are out of luck---it is up to you to
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1432
choose delimiters that do not conflict with what you are doing.  The
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1433
delimiter strings may still appear inside of program fragments as long
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1434
as they nest properly.  This means that if for some reason you
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1435
absolutely must have a program fragment that mentions one of the
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1436
delimiters, like this:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1437
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1438
	[@--
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1439
		print "Oh no, a delimiter: --@]\n"
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1440
	--@]
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1441
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1442
you may be able to make it work by doing this instead:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1443
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1444
	[@--
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1445
		# Fake matching delimiter in a comment: [@--
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1446
		print "Oh no, a delimiter: --@]\n"
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1447
	--@]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1448
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1449
It may be safer to choose delimiters that begin with a newline
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1450
character.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1451
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parents:
diff changeset
  1452
Because the parsing of templates is simplified by the absence of
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1453
backslash escapes, using alternative C<DELIMITERS> I<speeds up> the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1454
parsing process by 20-25%.  This shows that my original choice of C<{>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1455
and C<}> was very bad.  I therefore recommend that you use alternative
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1456
delimiters whenever possible.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1457
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1458
=head2 C<PREPEND> feature and using C<strict> in templates
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1459
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1460
Suppose you would like to use C<strict> in your templates to detect
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1461
undeclared variables and the like.  But each code fragment is a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1462
separate lexical scope, so you have to turn on C<strict> at the top of
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1463
each and every code fragment:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1464
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1465
	{ use strict;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1466
	  use vars '$foo';
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1467
	  $foo = 14;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1468
	  ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1469
	}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1470
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1471
	...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1472
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1473
	{ # we forgot to put `use strict' here
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1474
	  my $result = $boo + 12;    # $boo is misspelled and should be $foo
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1475
	  # No error is raised on `$boo'
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1476
	}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1477
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1478
Because we didn't put C<use strict> at the top of the second fragment,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1479
it was only active in the first fragment, and we didn't get any
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1480
C<strict> checking in the second fragment.  Then we mispelled C<$foo>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1481
and the error wasn't caught.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1482
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1483
C<Text::Template> version 1.22 and higher has a new feature to make
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1484
this easier.  You can specify that any text at all be automatically
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1485
added to the beginning of each program fragment.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1486
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1487
When you make a call to C<fill_in>, you can specify a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1488
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1489
	PREPEND => 'some perl statements here'
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1490
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1491
option; the statements will be prepended to each program fragment for
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1492
that one call only.  Suppose that the C<fill_in> call included a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1493
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1494
	PREPEND => 'use strict;'
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1495
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1496
option, and that the template looked like this:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1497
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1498
	{ use vars '$foo';
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1499
	  $foo = 14;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1500
	  ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1501
	}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1502
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1503
	...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1504
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1505
	{ my $result = $boo + 12;    # $boo is misspelled and should be $foo
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1506
	  ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1507
	}
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1508
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1509
The code in the second fragment would fail, because C<$boo> has not
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1510
been declared.  C<use strict> was implied, even though you did not
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1511
write it explicitly, because the C<PREPEND> option added it for you
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1512
automatically.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1513
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1514
There are two other ways to do this.  At the time you create the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1515
template object with C<new>, you can also supply a C<PREPEND> option,
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1516
in which case the statements will be prepended each time you fill in
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1517
that template.  If the C<fill_in> call has its own C<PREPEND> option,
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1518
this overrides the one specified at the time you created the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1519
template.  Finally, you can make the class method call
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1520
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1521
	Text::Template->always_prepend('perl statements');
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1522
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1523
If you do this, then call calls to C<fill_in> for I<any> template will
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1524
attach the perl statements to the beginning of each program fragment,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1525
except where overridden by C<PREPEND> options to C<new> or C<fill_in>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1526
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1527
=head2 Prepending in Derived Classes
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1528
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1529
This section is technical, and you should skip it on the first few
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1530
readings.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1531
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1532
Normally there are three places that prepended text could come from.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1533
It could come from the C<PREPEND> option in the C<fill_in> call, from
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1534
the C<PREPEND> option in the C<new> call that created the template
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1535
object, or from the argument of the C<always_prepend> call.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1536
C<Text::Template> looks for these three things in order and takes the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1537
first one that it finds.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1538
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1539
In a subclass of C<Text::Template>, this last possibility is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1540
ambiguous.  Suppose C<S> is a subclass of C<Text::Template>.  Should
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1541
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1542
	Text::Template->always_prepend(...);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1543
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1544
affect objects in class C<Derived>?  The answer is that you can have it
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1545
either way.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1546
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1547
The C<always_prepend> value for C<Text::Template> is normally stored
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1548
in  a hash variable named C<%GLOBAL_PREPEND> under the key
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1549
C<Text::Template>.  When C<Text::Template> looks to see what text to
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1550
prepend, it first looks in the template object itself, and if not, it
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1551
looks in C<$GLOBAL_PREPEND{I<class>}> where I<class> is the class to
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1552
which the template object belongs.  If it doesn't find any value, it
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1553
looks in C<$GLOBAL_PREPEND{'Text::Template'}>.  This means that
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1554
objects in class C<Derived> I<will> be affected by
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1555
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1556
	Text::Template->always_prepend(...);
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1557
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1558
I<unless> there is also a call to
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1559
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1560
	Derived->always_prepend(...);
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  1561
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  1562
So when you're designing your derived class, you can arrange to have
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parents:
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  1563
your objects ignore C<Text::Template::always_prepend> calls by simply
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parents:
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  1564
putting C<Derived-E<gt>always_prepend('')> at the top of your module.
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parents:
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  1565
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parents:
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  1566
Of course, there is also a final escape hatch: Templates support a
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parents:
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  1567
C<prepend_text> that is used to look up the appropriate text to be
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parents:
diff changeset
  1568
prepended at C<fill_in> time.  Your derived class can override this
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parents:
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  1569
method to get an arbitrary effect.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1570
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parents:
diff changeset
  1571
=head2 JavaScript
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parents:
diff changeset
  1572
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parents:
diff changeset
  1573
Jennifer D. St Clair asks:
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parents:
diff changeset
  1574
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parents:
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  1575
	> Most of my pages contain JavaScript and Stylesheets.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1576
        > How do I change the template identifier?
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parents:
diff changeset
  1577
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parents:
diff changeset
  1578
Jennifer is worried about the braces in the JavaScript being taken as
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parents:
diff changeset
  1579
the delimiters of the Perl program fragments.  Of course, disaster
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1580
will ensue when perl tries to evaluate these as if they were Perl
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1581
programs.  The best choice is to find some unambiguous delimiter
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1582
strings that you can use in your template instead of curly braces, and
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1583
then use the C<DELIMITERS> option.  However, if you can't do this for
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parents:
diff changeset
  1584
some reason, there are  two easy workarounds:
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parents:
diff changeset
  1585
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parents:
diff changeset
  1586
1. You can put C<\> in front of C<{>, C<}>, or C<\> to remove its
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1587
special meaning.  So, for example, instead of
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parents:
diff changeset
  1588
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parents:
diff changeset
  1589
	    if (br== "n3") {
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parents:
diff changeset
  1590
		// etc.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1591
	    }
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parents:
diff changeset
  1592
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parents:
diff changeset
  1593
you can put
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parents:
diff changeset
  1594
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parents:
diff changeset
  1595
	    if (br== "n3") \{
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parents:
diff changeset
  1596
		// etc.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1597
	    \}
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parents:
diff changeset
  1598
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parents:
diff changeset
  1599
and it'll come out of the template engine the way you want.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1600
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parents:
diff changeset
  1601
But here is another method that is probably better.  To see how it
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parents:
diff changeset
  1602
works, first consider what happens if you put this into a template:
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parents:
diff changeset
  1603
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parents:
diff changeset
  1604
	    { 'foo' }
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parents:
diff changeset
  1605
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1606
Since it's in braces, it gets evaluated, and obviously, this is going
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parents:
diff changeset
  1607
to turn into
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parents:
diff changeset
  1608
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parents:
diff changeset
  1609
	    foo
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parents:
diff changeset
  1610
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1611
So now here's the trick: In Perl, C<q{...}> is the same as C<'...'>.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1612
So if we wrote
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parents:
diff changeset
  1613
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parents:
diff changeset
  1614
	    {q{foo}}
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parents:
diff changeset
  1615
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parents:
diff changeset
  1616
it would turn into
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parents:
diff changeset
  1617
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parents:
diff changeset
  1618
	    foo
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parents:
diff changeset
  1619
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1620
So for your JavaScript, just write
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parents:
diff changeset
  1621
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parents:
diff changeset
  1622
	    {q{if (br== "n3") {
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parents:
diff changeset
  1623
	  	 // etc.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1624
	       }}
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parents:
diff changeset
  1625
	    }
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parents:
diff changeset
  1626
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parents:
diff changeset
  1627
and it'll come out as
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parents:
diff changeset
  1628
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parents:
diff changeset
  1629
	      if (br== "n3") {
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parents:
diff changeset
  1630
	  	  // etc.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1631
	      }
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parents:
diff changeset
  1632
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parents:
diff changeset
  1633
which is what you want.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1634
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parents:
diff changeset
  1635
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1636
=head2 Shut Up!
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parents:
diff changeset
  1637
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1638
People sometimes try to put an initialization section at the top of
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parents:
diff changeset
  1639
their templates, like this:
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parents:
diff changeset
  1640
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parents:
diff changeset
  1641
	{ ...
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parents:
diff changeset
  1642
	  $var = 17;
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parents:
diff changeset
  1643
	}
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parents:
diff changeset
  1644
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parents:
diff changeset
  1645
Then they complain because there is a C<17> at the top of the output
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parents:
diff changeset
  1646
that they didn't want to have there.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1647
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1648
Remember that a program fragment is replaced with its own return
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1649
value, and that in Perl the return value of a code block is the value
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parents:
diff changeset
  1650
of the last expression that was evaluated, which in this case is 17.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1651
If it didn't do that, you wouldn't be able to write C<{$recipient}>
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parents:
diff changeset
  1652
and have the recipient filled in.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1653
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1654
To prevent the 17 from appearing in the output is very simple:
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parents:
diff changeset
  1655
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parents:
diff changeset
  1656
	{ ...
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parents:
diff changeset
  1657
	  $var = 17;
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parents:
diff changeset
  1658
	  '';
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parents:
diff changeset
  1659
	}
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parents:
diff changeset
  1660
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1661
Now the last expression evaluated yields the empty string, which is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1662
invisible.  If you don't like the way this looks, use
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parents:
diff changeset
  1663
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1664
	{ ...
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parents:
diff changeset
  1665
	  $var = 17;
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parents:
diff changeset
  1666
	  ($SILENTLY);
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parents:
diff changeset
  1667
	}
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parents:
diff changeset
  1668
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parents:
diff changeset
  1669
instead.  Presumably, C<$SILENTLY> has no value, so nothing will be
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parents:
diff changeset
  1670
interpolated.  This is what is known as a `trick'.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1671
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1672
=head2 Compatibility
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parents:
diff changeset
  1673
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parents:
diff changeset
  1674
Every effort has been made to make this module compatible with older
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parents:
diff changeset
  1675
versions.  The only known exceptions follow:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1676
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1677
The output format of the default C<BROKEN> subroutine has changed
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1678
twice, most recently between versions 1.31 and 1.40.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1679
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1680
Starting in version 1.10, the C<$OUT> variable is arrogated for a
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1681
special meaning.  If you had templates before version 1.10 that
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1682
happened to use a variable named C<$OUT>, you will have to change them
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1683
to use some other variable or all sorts of strangeness will result.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1684
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1685
Between versions 0.1b and 1.00 the behavior of the \ metacharacter
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1686
changed.  In 0.1b, \\ was special everywhere, and the template
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1687
processor always replaced it with a single backslash before passing
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1688
the code to Perl for evaluation.  The rule now is more complicated but
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1689
probably more convenient.  See the section on backslash processing,
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1690
below, for a full discussion.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1691
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1692
=head2 Backslash Processing
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1693
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1694
In C<Text::Template> beta versions, the backslash was special whenever
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1695
it appeared before a brace or another backslash.  That meant that
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1696
while C<{"\n"}> did indeed generate a newline, C<{"\\"}> did not
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1697
generate a backslash, because the code passed to Perl for evaluation
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1698
was C<"\"> which is a syntax error.  If you wanted a backslash, you
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1699
would have had to write C<{"\\\\"}>.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1700
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1701
In C<Text::Template> versions 1.00 through 1.10, there was a bug:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1702
Backslash was special everywhere.  In these versions, C<{"\n"}>
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1703
generated the letter C<n>.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1704
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1705
The bug has been corrected in version 1.11, but I did not go back to
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1706
exactly the old rule, because I did not like the idea of having to
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1707
write C<{"\\\\"}> to get one backslash.  The rule is now more
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1708
complicated to remember, but probably easier to use.  The rule is now:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1709
Backslashes are always passed to Perl unchanged I<unless> they occur
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1710
as part of a sequence like C<\\\\\\{> or C<\\\\\\}>.  In these
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1711
contexts, they are special; C<\\> is replaced with C<\>, and C<\{> and
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1712
C<\}> signal a literal brace.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1713
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1714
Examples:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1715
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1716
	\{ foo \}
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1717
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1718
is I<not> evaluated, because the C<\> before the braces signals that
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1719
they should be taken literally.  The result in the output looks like this:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1720
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1721
	{ foo }
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1722
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1723
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1724
This is a syntax error:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1725
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1726
	{ "foo}" }
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1727
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1728
because C<Text::Template> thinks that the code ends at the first C<}>,
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1729
and then gets upset when it sees the second one.  To make this work
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1730
correctly, use
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1731
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1732
	{ "foo\}" }
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1733
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1734
This passes C<"foo}"> to Perl for evaluation.  Note there's no C<\> in
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1735
the evaluated code.  If you really want a C<\> in the evaluated code,
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1736
use
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1737
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1738
	{ "foo\\\}" }
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1739
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1740
This passes C<"foo\}"> to Perl for evaluation.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1741
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1742
Starting with C<Text::Template> version 1.20, backslash processing is
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1743
disabled if you use the C<DELIMITERS> option to specify alternative
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1744
delimiter strings.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1745
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1746
=head2 A short note about C<$Text::Template::ERROR>
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1747
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1748
In the past some people have fretted about `violating the package
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1749
boundary' by examining a variable inside the C<Text::Template>
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1750
package.  Don't feel this way.  C<$Text::Template::ERROR> is part of
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1751
the published, official interface to this package.  It is perfectly OK
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1752
to inspect this variable.  The interface is not going to change.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1753
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1754
If it really, really bothers you, you can import a function called
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1755
C<TTerror> that returns the current value of the C<$ERROR> variable.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1756
So you can say:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1757
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1758
	use Text::Template 'TTerror';
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1759
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1760
	my $template = new Text::Template (SOURCE => $filename);
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1761
	unless ($template) {
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1762
	  my $err = TTerror;
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1763
	  die "Couldn't make template: $err; aborting";
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1764
	}
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1765
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1766
I don't see what benefit this has over just doing this:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1767
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1768
	use Text::Template;
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1769
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1770
	my $template = new Text::Template (SOURCE => $filename)
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1771
	  or die "Couldn't make template: $Text::Template::ERROR; aborting";
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1772
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1773
But if it makes you happy to do it that way, go ahead.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1774
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1775
=head2 Sticky Widgets in Template Files
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1776
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1777
The C<CGI> module provides functions for `sticky widgets', which are
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1778
form input controls that retain their values from one page to the
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1779
next.   Sometimes people want to know how to include these widgets
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1780
into their template output.
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1781
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1782
It's totally straightforward.  Just call the C<CGI> functions from
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1783
inside the template:
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1784
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1785
	{ $q->checkbox_group(NAME => 'toppings',
83f4b4db085c Revision: 201005
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
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		  	     LINEBREAK => true,
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			     COLUMNS => 3,
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			     VALUES => \@toppings,
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			    );
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	}
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=head2 Automatic preprocessing of program fragments
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It may be useful to preprocess the program fragments before they are
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parents:
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evaluated.  See C<Text::Template::Preprocess> for more details.
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=head2 Author
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parents:
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Mark-Jason Dominus, Plover Systems
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parents:
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Please send questions and other remarks about this software to
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parents:
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C<mjd-perl-template+@plover.com>
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parents:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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You can join a very low-volume (E<lt>10 messages per year) mailing
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parents:
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list for announcements about this package.  Send an empty note to
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parents:
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C<mjd-perl-template-request@plover.com> to join.
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parents:
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parents:
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For updates, visit C<http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/Template/>.
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parents:
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parents:
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=head2 Support?
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parents:
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parents:
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This software is version 1.44.  It may have bugs.  Suggestions and bug
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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reports are always welcome.  Send them to
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parents:
diff changeset
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C<mjd-perl-template+@plover.com>.  (That is my address, not the address
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parents:
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of the mailing list.  The mailing list address is a secret.)
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parents:
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=head1 LICENSE
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parents:
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    Text::Template version 1.44
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parents:
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    Copyright (C) 2003 Mark Jason Dominus
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parents:
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    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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parents:
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    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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parents:
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  1824
    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
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parents:
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    License, or (at your option) any later version.  You may also can
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parents:
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    redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Perl
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parents:
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    Artistic License.
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parents:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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parents:
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  1830
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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parents:
diff changeset
  1831
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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parents:
diff changeset
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    GNU General Public License for more details.
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parents:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1834
    You should have received copies of the GNU General Public License
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parents:
diff changeset
  1835
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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parents:
diff changeset
  1836
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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parents:
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parents:
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  1838
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1839
=head1 THANKS
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parents:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1841
Many thanks to the following people for offering support,
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parents:
diff changeset
  1842
encouragement, advice, bug reports, and all the other good stuff.
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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parents:
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Michael J. Suzio /
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Dennis Taylor /
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James H. Thompson /
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Shad Todd /
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Lieven Tomme /
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Lorenzo Valdettaro /
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Larry Virden /
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Andy Wardley /
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Archie Warnock /
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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Chris Wesley /
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  1910
Matt Womer /
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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  1911
Andrew G Wood /
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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  1912
Daini Xie /
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1913
Michaely Yeung
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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  1914
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1915
Special thanks to:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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  1916
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1917
=over 2
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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  1918
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1919
=item Jonathan Roy
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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  1920
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1921
for telling me how to do the C<Safe> support (I spent two years
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1922
worrying about it, and then Jonathan pointed out that it was trivial.)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1923
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1924
=item Ranjit Bhatnagar
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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  1925
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1926
for demanding less verbose fragments like they have in ASP, for
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1927
helping me figure out the Right Thing, and, especially, for talking me
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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out of adding any new syntax.  These discussions resulted in the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1929
C<$OUT> feature.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1930
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1931
=back
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1932
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1933
=head2 Bugs and Caveats
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1934
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1935
C<my> variables in C<fill_in> are still susceptible to being clobbered
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1936
by template evaluation.  They all begin with C<fi_>, so avoid those
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1937
names in your templates.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1938
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1939
The line number information will be wrong if the template's lines are
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1940
not terminated by C<"\n">.  You should let me know if this is a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1941
problem.  If you do, I will fix it.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1942
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1943
The C<$OUT> variable has a special meaning in templates, so you cannot
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1944
use it as if it were a regular variable.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1945
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1946
There are not quite enough tests in the test suite.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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  1947
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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=cut