theguvnor has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm looking for the easiest way to redirect the output from TT2's process() method to a scalar, as opposed to STDOUT. Suggestions? (I am trying to avoid having to shell out to use tpage, if possible.)

Update: I looked at the template docs manual and did not see that. --me! Anyway, thanks for the lightning fast responses - I now see it in the perldoc page.

[Jon]

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Re: Template Toolkit output to a scalar?
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jan 14, 2005 at 22:42 UTC

    According to the Template docs, the third param to process can be a SCALAR ref - just pass in a ref to the variable you want to receive it.

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Re: Template Toolkit output to a scalar?
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jan 14, 2005 at 22:42 UTC 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Template;

my $data = { name => 'Ovid' };
my $template = Template->new;
my $output;
$template->process(\*DATA, $data, \$output);
print $output;

__DATA__
Hello, [% name %]

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    Cheers,
    Ovid

    New address of my CGI Course.

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Re: Template Toolkit output to a scalar?
by thor (Priest) on Jan 15, 2005 at 01:42 UTC
    In general, you can open a scalar as though it were a file. 
    my $fake_file;
open(my $fh, ">", \$fake_file) or die $!;
print $fh, "foo\n";
print $fh, "bar\n";
print $fake_file;

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    According to perldoc -f open, you can do this with STDOUT, you just have to close it first.

    thor

    Feel the white light, the light within
    Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
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      Now *that* is cool. Definitely hadn't stumbled on that tidbit. ++thor

      [Jon]

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