You might have already realized this, but the problem is in the print qq(). Template Toolkit parses the template and runs called subroutines before the data is output to STDOUT, so you will get output from those functions that are called before the data is acutally displayed.

The solution is to adjust the functions that are being called to return the values that they would have printed instead... ala: 
$stuff_to_print .= qq(<li>$_</li>\n) for( 1 .. $num );
return $stuff_to_print;

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or similar. Unfortunatly that involves a rewrite of the code...

You might be able to get it to work by selecting Template::Perl::PERLOUT as the standard output in the function... there is some indication that that might work as well.. but I'm not an expert in TT by any means.

In reply to Re: Template Toolkit, and delaying the execution of a function by dondelelcaro
in thread Template Toolkit, and delaying the execution of a function by elbie

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