Well, almost any time you want to use soft references ($$var_name), you'll find that a hash does the trick. Beyond that, it's tough to give you an answer. Can you answer the following?

• What are you using for a template system?
• How are you passing the data to the template?
• Could you show us snippets to illustrate each of the above responses?

If you show us that, we can probably provide better answers.

Cheers,
Ovid

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