Two Template Toolkit questions

nop has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Two small questions on TT2:

How do I escape apostrophes? eg I'd like have a proper apostrophe in the word "dont" in this code:
```
[% header(title='Dont try this') %]
[download]
```
How do I use a TT2 variable in a TT2 function call? eg if [% c1 %] is a TT2 variable, how do I do something like this?
```
 
[% CGI.textfield(name =>"copy1", size=>50, maxlength=>50, default=>c1)
+%]
[download]
```
The code above breaks the quote.

Thanks
nop

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Re: Two Template Toolkit questions by lachoy (Parson) on Feb 23, 2002 at 19:27 UTC
Just like Perl, you can use single or double quotes: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Template; my $template = Template->new(); $template->process( \*DATA, { runme => sub { return "<$_[0]->{title}>" } } ); __DATA__ [% runme( title = "don't try this" ) %]` [download] Produces: `<don't try this>` [download] Chris M-x auto-bs-mode	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Two Template Toolkit questions by Dog and Pony (Priest) on Feb 23, 2002 at 17:29 UTC
I admit I haven't used this module, but you have tried `'Don\'t try this'`? If you are looking for the HTML escape though, I think it is "`'`". You have moved into a dark place. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Two Template Toolkit questions by nop (Hermit) on Feb 23, 2002 at 17:12 UTC
Well, after scratching my head a bit, I realized the second one is fine. It looked broken (it wasn't) because `c1` was coming from a database field and was right-packed with spaces -- almost 1200 of them. Still wondering about my 1st question, tho nop	[reply] [d/l]

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