I'm working with some code that was left by a no longer existent programmer that was written using HTML:Template.
The code peices I am working with deal with how we display BLAST information for sequence alignment reports.
My interest with this comes from how we display these reports, whether they are for individual sequences or assembled sequences.
In the case of an assembled sequence, a template variable

 <TMPL_VAR NAME="contig"> would be used to identify the correct report.

However, the display page itself is not currently concerned with the existence of that variable, as the display formatting is done by a couple of other scripts. I tried using

<TMPL_IF NAME="contig"> to decide if it exists, but it doesn't seem to work, the

<TMPL_ELSE> loop is used instead.

Any feedback would be much appreciated!

In reply to Need help with legacy HTML::Template code by MrMadScience

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