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Hello,
I'm not able to fill a string as in the example below with Text::Template. Where is the mistake?
Thanks 
use strict;
use Text::Template;

my $user_info = 'u1';
my $site = 'a';
my $string = './{$user_info}.{$site}.txt';
my $template = Text::Template->new(TYPE =>'STRING',SOURCE=>$string);
$string = $template->fill_in({site=>$site,user_info=>$user_info});
print "$string\n";

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Re: Filling a string with Text::Template
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 12, 2019 at 09:25 UTC

    The documentation doesn't show your usage of ->fill_in but a different usage:

    my $result = $template->fill_in(HASH => \%vars);

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    Maybe using the documented version helps?

    my $result = $template->fill_in(HASH => { ... });

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    Also, you're overwriting the template in $string with the value. This shouldn't be problematic but it's confusing.

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