Ummm...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use HTML::Template;

my $temp = q|<TMPL_VAR name="mouth"><nothing-\|-bob><TMPL_VAR name="bo
+b">|;

$template = HTML::Template->new(scalarref => \$temp);
$template->param(bob=>"bob");
print $template->output;
__DATA__
<nothing-|-bob>bob

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You don't actually need to set the parameter as it will be regarded as '' if it's undefined. Try seeing how the parse stack is actually breaking up your code. To do this, try the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use HTML::Template;
use Data::Dumper;

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => $f_name,debug=>1);
print Dumper($template);

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This should provide you with a play-by-play parsing of the template. Furthermore, if you don't want something displayed, why use comments? Why not just use TMPL_COND to check whether or not the variable is set? Example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use HTML::Template;


my $temp = q|<TMPL_IF bob>something and <TMPL_VAR bob>
<TMPL_ELSE>bob failed</TMPL_IF>
<TMPL_IF joe>not displayed<TMPL_ELSE>joe failed</TMPL_IF>
<TMPL_IF jim>not displayed either because 0 is false
<TMPL_ELSE>jim failed</TMPL_IF>|;

my $template = HTML::Template->new(scalarref=>\$temp);
$template->param(bob=>"bob",jim=>0);
print $template->output;
__DATA__
something and bob

joe failed
jim failed

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Finally, what HTML is the template producing? Any unclosed comments that may have just been a copy and paste error? This has happened to me before as well. Hope this helps.

antirice    
The first rule of Perl club is - use Perl
The ith rule of Perl club is - follow rule i - 1 for i > 1

In reply to Re: Unused variable in HTML::Template results in blank screen by antirice
in thread Unused variable in HTML::Template results in blank screen by jonnyfolk

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