Hi there Monks!
I am trying to use this template system that its supposed to be simple and light, but can't get this simple example to work, I am wondering if anyone here has done any work using this template module or show me please where I am going wrong on my example here:
temp.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Template::Simple;

my $q = new CGI;

#my $tmpl = Template::Simple->new();
my $tmpl = Template::Simple->new(
    search_dirs    => [ (
             '/dir') ],
    );

print header();

my $vars = {};

$vars->{'title'} = 'Template Test';
$vars->{'site_name'} = 'TEST Home Page';

$vars = {
        header  => {
                date    => 'Jan 1, 2008',
                author  => 'Me, myself and I',
        },
        row     => [
                {
                        first   => 'row 1 value 1',
                        second  => 'row 1 value 2',
                },
                {
                        first   => 'row 2 value 1',
                        second  => 'row 2 value 2',
                },
        ],
        footer  => {
                modified        => 'Aug 31, 2006',
        },
    } ;
    
#my $rendered = $tmpl->render( 'templ.tmpl', $vars )|| die $tmpl->erro
+r();
  
$tmpl->add_templates( { demo => 'templ.tmpl' } ) ;
$tmpl->compile( 'demo' ) ;
my $rendered = $tmpl->render( 'demo', $vars ) ;

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temp.tmpl 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN" "http://
+www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile12.dtd"
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charse
+t=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en-gb" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; 
+maximum-scale=2.5; user-scalable=1;" />
<title>Temp Test [% title %]</title> 

</head>
<body>

<h3>Template Simple</h3>

<p><b>[%include title %]</b></p>

<br>

<p><b>[%INCLUDE site_name%]</b></p>

<br><br>

[%INCLUDE header%]

[%START row%]
        [%first%] - [%second%]
[%END row%]

[%INCLUDE footer%]


</body>
</html>

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Template::Simple Help! by Anonymous Monk

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