I agree with the suggestion to use Template::Toolkit. I have worked with merlyn on using Template Toolkit to generate httpd.conf files for a series of servers (dev configuration, then qa, then prod). This allows us to leave key directives the same and test them through our environment and be sure they will work in produciton. So it works well for all types of templating.

Your example would look something like: 

[%- items = ['one', 'two', 'three'] -%]
# Output an array data structure in perl.
@array = (
[%- FOREACH item IN items -%]
[%- IF loop.last -%]
'[%- item -%]'
[%- ELSE -%]
'[%- item -%]',
[%- END -%]
[%- END -%]);

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You can run this from the command line after you install Template using the tpage command. The extra '-' gets rid of whitespace from inside the template directives. If you want the code to look nice, you'll have to play with the spacing a bit.

In reply to Re: Templating suggestions for code generation by cbrandtbuffalo
in thread Templating suggestions for code generation by bart

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