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You probably should use a high-quality templating CPAN module, such as Template or Text::Template

If you insist on homegrowing your tmeplate module, the chief means of isolating variables within Perl are packages or hashes.

For hashes, here's a snippet:

{
   my %template_var;

   my ($key,$val) = split '=', $linefromtemplate;
   $template_var{$key} = $val;
}
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And for packages, here's another:
```
{
   package template_var;

   my ($key,$val) = split '=', $linefromtemplate;
no strict 'refs';
  $$key = $val;# left out symbolic dereference
use strict 'refs';
}
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```
I woulda caught my error if we could preview replies to other posts...Why dont we enable that?

In reply to RE: RE: RE: keeping $$this defined locally by princepawn
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I woulda caught my error if we could preview replies to other posts...Why dont we enable that?