Daniel,
Daniel Staal wrote on 29.04.2004:
>--As of Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:43 AM +0200, Jan Eden is alleged
>to have said:
>
>>I have a piece of HTML code containing two Perl variable names,
>>which is to be used in 6 scripts. So I tried to put it into a
>>separate file to be executed with "do page_head.pl", where
>>page_head.pl contains something like (simplified):
>>
>>my $page_head = qq{<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE
>>html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>>"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";><html
>>xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="de"
>>lang="de"><head><title>$title</title></head><body><a
>>href="show_local.pl?id=$mother_id" class="head"
>>target="_self">UP</a><div class="textbox"><!-- begin content -->};
>>
>>The obvious problem is, that the variables are not interpolated
>>according to their current value in the scripts, i.e. although
>
>--As for the rest, it is mine.
>
>Just out of curiosity: would using HTML::Template be terrible
>overkill? This seems to be the type of thing it was designed for...
You're right. When posting various snippets of code on different mailing lists, people
keep recommending HTML::Template, and I always promise to myself to write template
files. But every time a script works, I tend to think "Well, so much for that, now for
the next task." Laziness which backfires quite regularly. And this time, I will... I
hope I will use HTML::Template.
- Jan
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