Hiya spditner,

Is there some way to get HTML::Template to repeat a character N times, say  , without resorting to HTML::Template::Expr?

Nope. :)

But... using Zaxo's advice above you could get the script to prepare a HTML::Template param for inclusion into your .tmpl template like so:

# Original code by Zaxo
my $repeated = ' ' x $foo->{'depth'};
my $line = $repeated . $foo->{'name'} . "<br />";
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'foo.tmpl');
$template->param(html_out => $line);
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Then in foo.tmpl you would call the result by using something like:

<TMPL_VAR NAME="html_out">
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Not sure if that's the kind of answer you were looking for, but its one way of achieving your desired result.