Here's some sample code that doesn't work.
My main problem is that I don't understand what data type is suppose to be send to the TMPL_LOOP in the template, and don't understand how to create & modify the data type before sending it...
At least, I'm 99% sure that's my problem.

    my @checkedOptions = qw(team rank land networth strat updated mari
+ne fighter bomber panzer hl seal pds offPts defPts turns);
my @tableHeaders;
    foreach my $i (@checkedOptions) {
        push @tableHeader, $i;
    }
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That places the selected options into an array. then this:

    my $tableHeader = tableHeader(@tableHeader);
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is used to send that array to a subroutine, that I would like to create an appropriate data type for the TMPL_LOOP and then store the appropriate data to it.

Then subroutine I was attempting was this:

sub tableHeader {
    my @tableHeader = $_[0];
    my $rows;
    my %tempHash;
    foreach my $i (@tableHeader) {
        if ($i eq 'nw') { 
            push @{$rows}, {columnHeader => 'Networth'} 
        }
        elsif ($i eq 'hl') { 
            push @{$rows}, {columnHeader => 'Heavy Lasers'}
        }
        elsif ($i eq 'offPts') { 
            push @{$rows}, {columnHeader => 'Off. Pts'}
        }
        elsif ($i eq 'defPts') { 
            push @{$rows}, {columnHeader => 'Def. Pts'}
        }
        elsif ($i eq 'last_updated') { 
            push @{$rows}, {columnHeader => 'Updated'}
        }
        else {
            $tempHash{'columnHeader'} = capitalize($i);
            push @{$rows}, {columnHeader => $i}
        }
    }
    return $rows;
}
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I was then hoping to juse use the following in a HTML::Template file to create the appropriate column headers:

    <TMPL_LOOP NAME=tableHeader>
        <td align=center valign=middle><B>&nbsp;<TMPL_VAR NAME=columnH
+eader>&nbsp;</B><TD>
    </TMPL_LOOP>
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Basically I was hoping to send an array of hashes (each hash only containing 'columnHeader => columnName') to the template, and then to loop through each of them to pull the column names that were selected.

I tried disecting the code I use to pull data from a table and send it to the template, but obviously went about it the wrong way ;-P

Any help is greatly appreciated.

If I wasn't clear in explaining what I was trying to do, please let me know and I'll gladly attempt to re-explain in a more clear manner.

I'm still relatively new to some of the more complex (at least, more complex for me) parts of HTML::Template, and am trying to do the coding right the first time, rather then having to recode everything in the future :-)


Thanks again!


Steny

20040530 Edit by Corion: Fixed formatting, moved stuff into CODE tags

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