in reply to HTML::Template question - tmpl_if

Hi kiat,

The code you posted runs just fine for me, and under strict and warnings to boot. The only way I could elicit the error you describe is by intentionally inserting either undef, a string literal, or an actual scalar in for the value of options. If the key is simply absent -- as in your template output 2 -- then the output looks as it should. There's nothing to iterate over and so no loop contents displayed. Are you positive that's what is actually generating the error?

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Re: Re: HTML::Template question - tmpl_if
by kiat (Vicar) on Dec 14, 2003 at 01:55 UTC
    Hi djantzen,

    Thanks for helping!

    In my attempt to simplify, I left a subroutine out. I've included it in the latest update. The subroutine takes a hash and prepare it for output to HTML::Template.

    I would appreciate very much your taking a look at it again.

    Thanks in advance :)

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      Well this is somewhat poor style, but you could say something like: 

      options => defined($hashref->{'options'}) || []

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      How about a nice map though that only pulls out the defined elements in your hash? 

      map { defined $hash->{$_} ? ($_ => $hash->{$_}) : ()  } keys %$hash;

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      The output then can be fed directly into param. This is limited too in that it assumes your hashkeys are identical to your fields (TMPL_VARS), but if you can live with that assumption it might work for you.

      HTH

      "The dead do not recognize context" -- Kai, Lexx
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        Thanks, the first solution works for me.

        I didn't get the second solution to work. How do you get it work work given the code I gave about (the %hash and the generate subroutine).

        Finally, how would you have set up a template like this?

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