Hello y'all. I'm trying to do a nested loop in HTML::Template. My webapp grabs a list of directories and a bunch of files from those directories. I wish to display a table which includes the directory name followed by rows of 5 filenames (each one in a column). My current template is as follows: 
<html>
<head>
    <title><TMPL_VAR NAME="title"></title>
</head>
<body>
    <center>
    <table>
    <TMPL_LOOP NAME="dir_loop">
        <tr>
            <th colspan="5" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><font size="+3"><TMPL_VA
+R NAME="dir"></font></th>
        </tr>
        <TMPL_LOOP NAME="outter_file_loop">
        <tr>
            <TMPL_LOOP NAME="inner_file_loop">
            <td colspan="5"><TMPL_VAR NAME="filename"></td>
            </TMPL_LOOP>
        </tr>
        </TMPL_LOOP>
    </TMPL_LOOP>
    </table>
    </center>
</body>
</html>

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It starts with the dir_loop -- for each dir. The outter_file_loop is for each row, and the inner_file_loop is for each item in the row. My questions are as follows: Does the template look like it would work? If so, how would I construct the array & hashes to make it work? Is there a better way to do it (<- this should probably be asked first)? Thanks in advance. -Brian

In reply to Nested loops in HTML::Template by Anonymous Monk

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