Right, I've read it. What I want to be able to do based on my understanding of the docs is something like:

[%
var_name = 'foo';
$var_name = 'bar';
# I wish $foo would eq 'bar' but it doesn't
%]
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but my understanding is that:

[% var_name = 'foo' %]
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is the same as:

[% $var_name = 'foo' %]
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Right? So far I'm thinking that I can't achieve what I want. Fortunately this is Perl, so there's always another way :)

perl -e 'split//,q{john hurl, pest caretaker}and(map{print @_[$_]}(joi
+n(q{},map{sprintf(qq{%010u},$_)}(2**2*307*4993,5*101*641*5261,7*59*79
+*36997,13*17*71*45131,3**2*67*89*167*181))=~/\d{2}/g));'
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Try ${var_name} = 'bar', and if that doesn't work, ask on the TT mailing list. I think TT supports this.

That did it, in fact the code I posted above:

[%
var = 'foo';
$var = 'bar';
# now $foo eq 'bar'!
%]
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actually works without the braces, I found a typo in my code :P

perl -e 'split//,q{john hurl, pest caretaker}and(map{print @_[$_]}(joi
+n(q{},map{sprintf(qq{%010u},$_)}(2**2*307*4993,5*101*641*5261,7*59*79
+*36997,13*17*71*45131,3**2*67*89*167*181))=~/\d{2}/g));'
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