There are all kinds of things you CAN do in TT, but that doesn't mean you should do them.

I'm quite well aware of that, but thanks for reminding anyway ;)

What I want to do is really simple output processing (like substituting   for spaces in menus). I think that's something I can safely do in a template -- if not, I'll be happy to hear why before I go too far in a wrong direction :)

I checked merlyn's examples. Here are the results:

Template:

--cut here--
[% MACRO tr_test BLOCK %]
   join ':', @_;
[% END %]

[% PERL %]
   $stash->set( 'tr_test_2', sub { join ':', @_ } );
[% END %]

1: [% tr_test( 'test', '1' ) %]
2: [% tr_test_2( 'test', '2' ) %]
--cut here--

[download]


And the result: 

--cut here--
 
 
 
 
1:
   join ':', @_;
 
2: test:2
--cut here--

[download]


So the latter does exactly what I need. Thanks for both answers.

-marcink

In reply to Re: Re: Template Toolkit 2 and subroutines by marcink
in thread Template Toolkit 2 and subroutines by marcink

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