Hello Monks!

After a long hiatus from the site, I'm back again :)

I've been toying with a side pet project for publishing HTML files. What I'm trying to achieve is similar to what ActionView, and other templating tools do.

In publish.pl, let's say I have a subroutine 'layout' that has local variables $headline, $body, $url. Within this sub, I'd like to call another script 'article.layout.pl', but with the local variables $headline, $body, and $url available to the script. 'article.layout.pl' would then use these variables to print out the final layout.

In publish.pl

sub layout {
    ...
    my ($headline, $body, $url);
    ...
    # call article.layout.pl
    ??? article.layout.pl {$headline, $body, $url};
}
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In article.layout.pl

print <<HEADER
...
HEADER

print $title;
print $body;
print $url;

print <<FOOTER
...
FOOTER
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I realize I could use TemplateTookit to achieve this, but I was hoping to learn how to call mess with perl scoping in general.

Thanks fellow monks! It's good to be back.