I wasn't able to post the actual code sooner because I didn't have my laptop where the code was. I know this post is a bit late, so I hope someone who knows more than me sees this. 
sub build_evntype {
    my @event_entries;
    my @event_list=("Event1", "Event2");
    my $p_event = shift;
    for (my $i=0; $i<=$#event_list; $i++) {
        my $event_data={};
        $$event_data{"t_event"}=$event_list[$i];
        $$event_data{"n_event"}=$i+1;
        if ($i+1 == $p_event) {
            $$event_data{"sel"} = "selected";
        }
        push (@event_entries, $event_data);
    }
    return \@event_entries;
}

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I am using the same type of code to build 6 other select lists in my template, and they all work fine.

To fix my problem, I didn't touch the code, I just changed the name of the TMPL_LOOP, and it worked. I agree that it doesn't make sense, I am only interpreting the information I have at hand.

Thanks for all your insight,
digger

In reply to Re: HTML:Template Limitation? by digger
in thread HTML:Template Limitation? by digger

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