Appending to Template Toolkit

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks!
I am changing HTML::Template to Template Toolkit in my code, but I am stuck where I am trying to append data, its OK done with HTML:Template, but now I have to use TT. How could I do the same I did here using HTML::Template to work with TT, has anyone done something like that before?

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

...

my $template = Template->new( );
my $temp_data = {};
  # set variales for template
  ...              
# here is how I did for HTML::Template     
      #$template->param(my_date => $date);
      #$onscreen .= $template->output;
      
      # process template with tt
      $temp_data->{'my_date'} = $date;
      $onscreen .= $template->process('screen.html', $temp_data) || di
+e $template->error( );
...
      $onscreen .="</table>";
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Thanks for the Help!

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Re: Appending to Template Toolkit by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 07, 2011 at 19:48 UTC
Have you looked at the Template`::process` documentation? It tells you how to do what you want.	[reply]
Re^2: Appending to Template Toolkit by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2011 at 19:59 UTC
I couldn't find anything that allowed me to append to a line like this: `$onscreen .= $template->process('screen.html', $temp_data) \|\| di +e $template->error( );` [download] I need to bring this piece of html file with the $date in it into $onscreen so the rest of the code finished its processing.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Appending to Template Toolkit by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 07, 2011 at 20:24 UTC
Then read the section again. Maybe searching for the word "append" helps. I'm not sure how I could tell things clearer than the documentation already does, which is why I'm pointing you to it instead of regurgitating it here.	[reply]
Re^4: Appending to Template Toolkit by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2011 at 20:45 UTC
Re^3: Appending to Template Toolkit by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Mar 07, 2011 at 20:04 UTC
One note - you will probably run into precedence issues with `\|\|` vs. `or`. See perlop for more information. --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l] [select]