In an effort to streamline my html subroutines (mostly for printing <tr>'s on reports) I'm doing something similar to the following:

sub HTML_Something {
 my $t = shift;

 return <<END;
     <tr/td code>
     $t->{key}
     </tr>
END
}
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I would like/love to do the following:

sub HTML_Something {
 my $t = shift;
 my $d = new Number::Format (-thousands_sep => ',', -decimal_point => 
+'.', -decimal_fill => 2);

 return <<END;
     <tr/td code>
     $d->format_number($t->{key})
     </tr>
END
}
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But, alas, that seems to print the memory location of the hash/ref $t contains. If I say something like this:

sub HTML_Something {
 my $t = shift;
 my $d = new Number::Format (-thousands_sep => ',', -decimal_point => 
+'.', -decimal_fill => 2);
 
 $t->{key} = $d->format_number($t->{key});

 return <<END;
     <tr/td code>
     $t->{key}
     </tr>
END
}
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I get satisfactory results. What am I missing? I dont really want to do that for every key that I need to format in the html. I'd just like to get interpolation to work within the return <<END area. :) 'Course, the characters I've spent in typing this are most likely greater than the characters I -could- have spent just using my 3rd code example.. :)

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