Let me show you how hard it is to work with Template for the example you gave.

the Perl script

use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;
my $template = Template->new({
    INCLUDE_PATH => '.',
    EVAL_PERL    => 1,
    }) || die $!;

my $foo = foo(3,5);
my @s = ('this', 'that');

$template->process("tpl.txt", {foo => $foo, s => \@s}) || die $templat
+e->error();

sub foo { $_[0]+$_[1] }

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the template file

This is some line.
This is a line with some expression: [% foo %]
[% FOREACH l = s %]
This is [% l %] line
[% END %]
This is the end

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btw. It's up to you to make your code readable. If you have arrays, you'll have to cycle through its elements. Template is not to blame.

In reply to Re^3: Looking for a "Template Engine" by olus
in thread Looking for a "Template Engine" by rovf

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