Perl commands from template input file

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Perl commands from template input file

jwzumwalt

7:17 pm on Dec 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

If I hard code the following in a cgi script it works...

my $timestamp = localtime time;
print <html><body>$timestamp</body></html>;

However, the $timestamp will not work if the same code is imported from a template file - it is printed out as text.

How do I get Perl to interpret code from a template file as literal (during a print command)?
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Thanks - JZ

perl_diver

10:00 pm on Dec 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

The point of using templates is to seperate code from format/display so putting code in a template is the wrong approach. You import the variable to the template from your code.

Dabrowski

12:27 pm on Dec 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

7:17 pm on Dec. 25, 2007

I can't believe it, you actually posted on christmas day. I knew someone had to!

jwzumwalt

10:53 pm on Dec 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

Well... I'm a retired firefighter of 21 years. I guess that job got me to look at every day as a workday :-)

phranque

6:28 am on Dec 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

he actually joined on christmas.

welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], jz!

you could look into embperl [perl.apache.org] or Mason [masonhq.com] or the Text::Template perl module [search.cpan.org].