Doh! and fab! many thanks, I knew I was missing something!

And this shows me how to easily create new TT filters in the Catalyst framework... (eg commify ucwords etc!) http://readlist.com/lists/lists.rawmode.org/catalyst/2/11553.html

 package myApp::View::TT;

 use strict;
 use base 'Catalyst::View::TT';

 __PACKAGE__->config({
   CATALYST_VAR => 'catalyst',
   ...
   FILTERS => {
     yesno => sub { $_[0] ? 'yes' : 'no'; },
     onoff => sub { $_[0] ? 'on' : 'off'; },
   },
 });
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Many many thank Monks!