O wise and experienced Brethren! I seek the canonical answer to a simple question.

What's the best (as in Best Practices) template system to use for incidental and trivial formatted printing tasks like this one, which includes conditional content? 

  # Fabricated but verisimilar example
  printf "UPDATE %s SET\n",      $table_name;
  printf "CUSTOMER_NAME = '%s'", $customer_name;
  printf ",\nAGE = %d",          $age     if defined $age;
  printf ",\nSTATUS = '%s'",     $status  if defined $status;
  printf ",\nADDRESS = '%s'",    $address if defined $address;
  printf ",\nPHONE = '%s'",      $phone   if defined $phone;
  printf "\nWHERE CUSTOMER_NUMBER = %d;\n\n", $customer_number;

[download]
I don't mind using a CPAN module, of course; indeed, I expect I'll have to. But I'm hoping to avoid being overwhelmed by the surfeit of available choices. This commonplace task has got to be easier than it seems from my research of the many options.

Thank you!

Jim

In reply to Simple Template System That Supports Conditional Content? by Jim

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.