From: "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Nobody else has mentioned this, but I think it's nice to have a name
> to write to. '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and 'rkl' don't do a lot for me!
Agreed completely.
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 1 - What is the best char to use in a file template?
> > Also, please give me a good regex?
> >
> > I will have a formatted html page with some keys that I want to
> > replace.
> >
> > For example,
> >
> > ...
> > <!-- here my token is a ! -->
> > <td>First Name:</td><td>!fname!</td>
> > <td>Last Name:</td><td>~!lname!</td>
> > ...
>
> Unless there's a good reason not to, I would use an HTML comment tag
>
> <!-- fname -->
>
> <!-- lname -->
>
> etc. so that the HTML parses OK before the subtitutions are done.
Well ... I like to be able to see the things I forgot to replace.
I usualy use
[% name %]
for things that are to be replaced.
> > 2 - Can I read in the whole page and do a replacement?
> > I'm thinking it's either a line-by-line or a whole page as below:
> >
> > #line-by-line replace token
> > $line ~= s/!fname!/$fname/
> >
> > #or put the whole template in
> > $page ~= s/!fname!/$fname/
> > $page ~= s/!lname!/$lname/
>
>
> Your substitution is fine, just add a /g to it to change all tags in
> the string instead of just the first. Like this
>
> $line =~ s/<!-- fname -->/$fname/g;
>
> Unless you have a good reason to read in the whole file at once,
> process it a record at a time.
Of course keep in mind that your tokens cannot span several lines
then:
<!-- fname
-->
would not work.
Jenda
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