Re: inserting HTML file in a PERL script

Here's the kind of thing you could do if this needs to be quick and dirty and you don't have time to learn Template::Toolkit:

my $variable = 'This is a value!';
my $variable_name = '$variable';
my $template = snarf('template.htm');
$template =~ s/\Q$variable_name\E/$variable/g;
print $template;

sub snarf {
  local $/ = undef;
  my $template_file = shift;
  open F, $template_file or die "can't open $template_file";
  my $template = <F>;
  close F;
  $template;
}
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with the template.htm file containing:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
The variable is : $variable
<BR><BR>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0>
<TR><TD>
<HR color=#99ffcc SIZE=4>
<FONT face=Arial color=#99ffcc><B>
Bottom text
</B></FONT>
</TD></TR></TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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Re^2: inserting HTML file in a PERL script by thetallblondguy (Initiate) on May 29, 2005 at 13:12 UTC
Thank you for your help everyone, it is highly appreciated. About this script, it seems to be applicable only if the variable is named $variable Could it be possible to give me the code for a script that would replace anything starting with $xxx ? The variables that i have got in my html code can be named A-Z and '_' like $EMAIL or $CONTACT_ADDRESS	[reply]
Re^3: inserting HTML file in a PERL script by davidrw (Prior) on May 29, 2005 at 15:24 UTC
yes, you could match on the $ and lookup the variable name in a hash, and replace with the value. Expects the template variables to be uppercase (A-Z and _ only) and the hash keys to be lower case. `use strict; use warnings; my %data = ( first_name => 'Foo', email => 'Bar', ); $/ = undef; my $s = <DATA>; $s =~ s/\$([A-Z_]+)/exists $data{lc $1}?$data{lc $1}:$&/esg; print $s; __DATA__ First name is $FIRST_NAME and<br> email is: $EMAIL. junk is $JUNK` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: inserting HTML file in a PERL script by Tortue (Scribe) on May 29, 2005 at 19:04 UTC
Just to generalize the script I gave you... This replaces any variable in the template with its value in the program. It's a quick-and-dirty fix that may solve your problem if you're in a rush. Of course, as others have noted, it would be better if you used a proper templating system. Note also that this only works for simple scalar variables (e.g. `$thing`, `$ZOWIE`), not for more complicated variables such as array or hash elements (e.g., `$var[$num]` or `$var{thing}`). `my $template = snarf('template.htm'); while ($template =~ /(\$[:alpha:]\w*)/g) { my $variable_name = $1; my $value = eval $variable_name; $template =~ s/\Q$variable_name\E/$value/g; } print $template;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]