in reply to Thoughts on converting from HTML::Template to Template Toolkit

If you don't want TT to add whitespace to your output, you can also use the PRE_CHOMP or POST_CHOMP directives when you make your Template object.

My Template (2.802.14) doesn't seem to mind multiple [% END %] directives on the same line. Perhaps something else was going on in your code? 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Template;

my $tt = Template->new;

my $template = <<"HERE";
<a[% IF url %] href="[% url %]"[% END %][% IF active %] class="active"
+[% END %]>
HERE

$tt->process( 
    \$template, 
    { url => 'http://www.example.com', active => 1 } 
    );

$tt->process( 
    \$template, 
    { url => 'http://www.example.com', active => 0 } 
    );

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As for ttree, you can specify the config file with the -f switch. Are you playing with an older TT, by any chance?

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Re^2: Thoughts on converting from HTML::Template to Template Toolkit
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Mar 22, 2006 at 19:51 UTC

    Where did you get a 2.80 version of Template? Even their website says that the latest is 2.14a. There very well could be something going on, but when I split everything on to seperate lines, things got better - the loop actually printed something out. Also, using ttree, I'm not creating any Template object, although when I was having that problem, I was still using tpage to run my first template through the translator to ensure things were working.

    And config file - when perusing the ttree documentation, I didn't realise that the config file and the rc file were the same but different. I didn't think there would be two config files for the same executable.

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      Maybe I got the distro version wrong. That's the version inside Template.pm, but the dist version is 2.14. Still, I don't have a problem with multiple [% END %]s on the same line. Perhaps you can post a script which illustrates the problem.

      You can specify Template directives such as PRE_CHOMP and POST_CHOMP in your ttree config file. The ttree man page explains it, or you can do ttree -h to see all of the options. You may not think you are creating a Template object, but you are; ttree is just doing it for you.

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