i've found myself with a touch of a 'hack' in some templates i put together w/ Template::Toolkit. it works fine and all, but there has to be a better way to do this.

what i need to do:

  1. loop X number of times ( in this case  x = 5 )
  2. append X to the variable names ( to distinguish them )
  3. use those names in a CGI form-method
my TT code looks like this: 
    [% FOREACH s = [ 1 .. 5 ] %]

        [% PNAME = [ 'floorplan_name', s ] %]
        [% useName = PNAME.join('') %]
     ### other variables snipped for clarity.  
     ### there are 4 or so more just like this

     <tr>
        <td> Floor Plan Name </td>
        <td colspan='3'> 
        [% mycgi.textfield( '-name' => useName, 
                            '-size' => '50',
                            '-default' =>  THIS_PAGE.$IDX.floorplan_na
+me ) %] 
     </td>
     </tr>

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etc.

i read through some of the mailing lists, and from what i saw, the  $var trick within TT only works for hash/ arrray keys, not for strings.

so, is there a better way?

sometimes, cases like this, i miss having a *real* job ... but not often. :-)

In reply to Template::Toolkit: better way to generate variable names? by geektron

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