hi all!

I've just discovered Template::Plugin::ExifTool, great great great. Now, I've also discovered that most camera's keep a thumbnail in this exif information too, which is perfectly viewable with this great Template plugin.

for instance, when i call the information for an image, i saw this key and value: 
ThumbnailImage => SCALAR(0x84fe774)

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so my little brain saw "SCALAR" and it said to my fingers "dereference it!". so i produce something like this: 

[%- USE image = ExifTool(image_file) -%]
[%- thumb=image.GetValue('ThumbnailImage','Binary') ; $thumb -%]

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of course, if the above worked, you wouldn't be reading this message. The error message in question is: 

undef error - Template::Stash::XS: get (arg 2) must be a scalar or lis
+tref at ./thumb.tmpl line 4.

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(line 4 is the USE-line)

If I view the variable thumb with Dumper.dump(thumb)... than I can see the binary data. Well I see: 

VAR1 = \'[binary data]';

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Anybody any ideas how i should display the thumb? Thanks a lot!

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In reply to Template::Plugin::ExifTool thumbnails by insaniac

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