Please. Don't.

I don't know why it's some "rite of passage", but it seems that everyone goes out and (re)writes their own templating system in Perl.

There are already something like 36(!) of them in the CPAN.

Please study them first. If none of them do what you want, feel free to write your own, or better, contribute code patches to the one that is closest to what you want.

The world does not need you wasting your time reinventing this wheel for the 37th time. There are many more urgent things to do. If you're really looking for something to tackle in your spare time, ask me... I've got a pile of stuff on my todo list.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: A quick and dirty template system by merlyn
in thread A quick and dirty template system by rrwo

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