LPM: Problems with text::template

[David Pitts]

So are you suggesting that my template should look more like this:

<!-- Begin News Text -->
Get news here:  {$news=&getnews;print $news;''}
</td>
<!-- End News Text -->

Thanks,

David
David Pitts
President, Pitts Technical Resources, Inc
(859) 552-3262
www.dpitts.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hempy" <hempy at ket.org>
To: <lexington-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: LPM: Problems with text::template


> At 09:23 PM 6/21/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >Okay, I am playing with text::template for the first time - thanks to 
> >Rich's discussion on it.  I have a template that includes some perl... 
> >something like this:
> >
> ><!-- Begin News Text -->
> >Get news here:  {&getnews;''}
> ></td>
> >
> >The {$variable} does fine.  The problem is with the lines like:
> >
> >Get news here:  {&getnews;''}
> >What it is doing is it is taking any subroutine results and displaying 
> >them (returning them) first, and then is giving my template....
> >
> 
> 
> Your subroutine should return the text, not print it.
> 
> -dave
> 
> 
> 
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