Happy Holidays fellow monks!!

Well, I gave in and installed Template Toolkit, and I am very happy to say that I am loving it - it is a good as everyone said it was.

Here is my question. In constructing the 'vars' array that holds all the varibles that will be processed, I want to do this: 
%vars = { name => value, n => v, ...};

$template->process($file,\%vars);

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thus, passing a hash reference to the process() function, which is exactly what it calls for. Yet, whenever I do this, it doesn't work, but the next code DOES: 
$vars = { name => value, n => v, ...};

$template->process($file, $vars);

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Now, how come the latter works, when the former doesn't?? Aren't they both exactly the same thing? The reason I want to use the former is because I want to be able to update the varibles in the vars array on the fly, ie $vars{'name'} = new_value.

Thanks so much to everyone, you guys are a very great help!! And I am sure there is more questions to come, so brace for impact :-).

R.Joseph

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