Given a Template Toolkit template, I'd like to get access to all the variables it defines. But not from within the template, rather, I'd like another Perl script to extract variables of the template.

My assumption was that variables get stored in a Template::Stash object, but running the code below doesn't return the expected value 'bar'.

Any ideas on what I'm missing? 

my $data_string = q{
[% foo = "bar" %]
};

use Template;
use Template::Stash;

my $stash = Template::Stash->new();
my $tmpl = Template->new(STASH => $stash);

my $out;
$tmpl->process(\$data_string, {}, \$out) or
    die $tmpl->error();

print $stash->get('foo'), "\n";

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In reply to Accessing Template Toolkit Variables by saintmike

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