Perl "test merge"

[Joe Cosby]

Thanks for all the help with the earlier questions I've posted

I am trying to do something I've seen in other perl code bases but I
don't know how they do it.

You have a text -file- (html, usually) and it looks like this:

"Some text

Some more text !!$someperlvariable!!

more text"

and if $someperlvariable = "merge stuff" you end up with

"Some text

Some more text merge stuff

more text"

Now the point is, this should work for any variable defined in the
parent code, not just the one particular one. (Obviously it would be
easy if the only variable I had to worry about was $someperlvariable)

If I define a string in perl as "some text $someperlvariable more
text" then perl does what I want, the value of $someperlvariable goes
into the string rather than "$someperlvariable".

But if I load the string from a file this doesn't seem to work.

It seems to be at least a somewhat common practice (using the double
"!!" or other delimiters to indicate dynamic content to be merged in),
it seems like I've seen it done in other code bases than the one I
first saw it in.

Does anybody know how to do this?

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[Joe Cosby]

oops, that should have been "text merge"



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[Joe Cosby]

D'OH!

Text::Template was what I was looking for

Sorry for the newbie question/s