Luke Palmer wrote: > I think $() will help somewhat, as will interpolating method calls, but > for a compiler, I'd really like PHP-like parse switching. That is, I > could do something like (I'll use $< and $> for <? and ?>):
Check out the new scanner module for Template Toolkit v3. It does this exactly that. It allows you to specify as many different tag styles as you like and uses a composite regex to locate them in a source document. It extracts the intervening text, and then calls back to your code to do whatever you like with them. It takes care of the surrounding text and handles things like counting line numbers so that you don't have to worry about it. The code is still in development so you'll need to get it from CVS. See: http://tt3.template-toolkit.org/code.html Everything is raw and undocumented, but examples/scanner.pl shows an example of what you want to do. Be warned that I'm working on this right now, so things are changing often. Having said that, the scanner is pretty much stable, although the handler object that it interacts with isn't. A
