Hi Monks!
I am trying to generate .html files using HTML::Template, but when the code runs it is repeating the whole content of the .tmpl file if rows of data are found. The "->output" should be outside of the while, but I just cant figure it out how I would write the files if I do that.
Here is a short version of the code that shows what I am trying to do.
#!/usr/bin/perl  
 
use strict;
use warnings;


use HTML::Template;
use Data::Dumper;
use File::Slurp;

# Load Main Template
my $data_tmpl = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'data.tmpl',);

my $more_data = more_data();
                        
my $alldata;


 while ( my ( $key, $entry ) = each %{ $more_data } ) {

  # Load into the template
  $data_tmpl->param(
                     NAME => $entry->{'NAME'},
                    );
                        
   
  # load values into template 
    $data_tmpl->param(
                      NUMBER => $entry->{NUMBER},
                      DATE   => $entry->{DATE},
                      COL    => $entry->{COL},
                      FIRST  => $entry->{FIRST},
                      LAST   => $entry->{NAME},
                                    
                     );

   $alldata .= $data_tmpl->output;
    
   # Uses file slurp for writing 
   write_file("/location/".$key.".html", $alldata);
      
 }

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In reply to HTML::Template output to files. by Anonymous Monk

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