This meditation is not about solving the above problem which I encountered about 12 hours ago. It's about searching for a list of answers that might have helped me before I went through the drudgery of snipping out bits of my Template::Tookit code to find out what the problem was.

Well, in my case, I had [$- opening a block instead of [%- .. but the error that I got (Bad file descriptor) didn't really help me. I just wish there was somewhere on the Internet where I could file this information for the next poor sap that comes along.

Yes, I googled, I did a Super Search on Perlmonks, I googled some more, I did an strace on perl (how messy was that!!) and finally started cutting out some of the new code that I'd added. The good news was that I'd used rcs to check in the previous night's versions, so I had clear delineations between What Worked Last Night and What Doesn't Work This Morning.

I may be forced to start my own site, even if it's for my own sanity. Is there anywhere on the Internet where I might find such a repository of information?

Update I've started a blog (or, I should say, resumed a blog) at this location where I will shortly post this tidbit. I'll try to classify the Perl bits somehow. I'm new (again) to this whole blogging thing.

Spare time? What spare time?

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Bad file descriptor using Template::Toolkit by talexb

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