Is there any specific reason you need to squeeze everything into a single hash key/template variable?  Why not create a proper nested data structure, which you can then access something like this in the template

    [% TimeData.RemainingDays.$status.$percent %]
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To elaborate, here's some sample code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Template;

my $vars;
$vars->{Stati}            = [ qw(NEW ASSIGNED) ];
$vars->{UtilRatioPercent} = [ qw(25 50 75) ];

for (1..3) {
    my $item;
    for my $status (@{$vars->{Stati}}) {
        for my $percent (@{$vars->{UtilRatioPercent}}) {
            $item->{RemainingDays}{$status}{$percent} = int(rand 42);
        }
    }
    push @{ $vars->{ReturnValues} }, $item;
}

#use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $vars; exit; # debug

my $templ = q{
[% FOREACH status IN Stati %]
  [% FOREACH percent IN UtilRatioPercent %]
    [% FOREACH TimeData IN ReturnValues %]
      Remaining ([% status %]-[% percent %]): [% TimeData.RemainingDay
+s.$status.$percent %] days
    [% END %]
  [% END %]
[% END %]
};

my $tt = Template->new();
$tt->process(\$templ, $vars) or die $tt->error();
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Output (superfluous whitespace removed):

      Remaining (NEW-25): 0 days
      Remaining (NEW-25): 29 days
      Remaining (NEW-25): 11 days
      Remaining (NEW-50): 29 days
      Remaining (NEW-50): 4 days
      Remaining (NEW-50): 14 days
      Remaining (NEW-75): 23 days
      Remaining (NEW-75): 23 days
      Remaining (NEW-75): 27 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-25): 3 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-25): 5 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-25): 13 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-50): 3 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-50): 23 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-50): 3 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-75): 14 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-75): 1 days
      Remaining (ASSIGNED-75): 37 days
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If I understand your needs correctly, You can use variables as key names, but, I believe, need to store the full key value to a variable. Something like the following:

[% when = 'NEW';
   num  = 75;
   key  = 'RemainingDays' _ when _ '-' _ num;
%]
...
[% TimeData.$key %]
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Thanks Dean,

that was exactly what I was looking for.

Hell of alot of work to implement, but it was worth it!

Now, the project admin can enter different utilization ratios for the programmers on the team and bug deadlines are calculated on the fly according to estimated work hours and util ratio and shown directly in Bugzilla - totally dynamic :-D

Thank you for your help!

Regards,

Fred

I don't understand your requirements, both the why and the what is a mystery to me. For example: Why do you have to use this data structure? If the data structure is not suitable for the templating system you can just generate a second temporary suitable data structure out of the data, call the template and throw the temporary data away.

But even with your actual data it seems you just need a nested loop to access the values:

[% FOREACH TimeData IN ReturnValues %] 
  [% FOREACH Rd IN TimeData %] 
    [% TimeData.Rd %]
  [% END %]
[% END %]
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Disclaimer: I'm not an TT expert

Hey Jethro, what I want or better need to do is a concatenation of two variables in the template. Usually you concatenate two variables with a "." as in:



$Variable1."-".$Variable2;
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Output:

Value1-Value2

This doesn't work in the template.

Depending on what utilization ratio a programmer has, a certain value needs to be output in the template. This is why I need to make the template variable dynamic.

The first part of the variable is:



[% TimeData.RemainingTimeNEW- 

OR

[% TimeData.RemainingTimeASSIGNED-
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Now I need to concatenate the second part of the variable.



[% TimeData.RemainingTimeNEW-UtilRatioPercent %]
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I tried the following solutions but with no luck:



[% TimeData.RemainingTimeNEW-_UtilRatioPercent %]

[% TimeData.RemainingTimeNEW-$UtilRatioPercent %]

[% TimeData.RemainingTimeNEW-${UtilRatioPercent} %]

[% TimeData.RemainingTimeNEW-.UtilRatioPercent %]
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The variable should be read out as:

TimeData.RemainingTimeNEW-75

Where the 75 is variable

Hope this sheds some light on what I want.

Regards,

Fred