> I vaguely understand that local restricts the auto flushing, though I’m
not sure how. Does local go out of scope when the TT is called? More
broadly, do I actually need local? Do I actually need auto flushing?
It basically creates a "local" copy of the global var - local meaning the
current lexi
Hi Rick,
Regarding "local":
$| is a global* variable so you use local to isolate this change to only
where you need it.
To see what I mean, run this:
print "step1: $| \n";
{
local $| = 1;
print "step2: $| \n";
}
print "step3: $| \n";
and you'll get output:
step1: 0
step2: 1
st
I’m very much a novice — familiar with Learning Perl but finding Intermediate
Perl an uphill slog.
The few lines below are from a subroutine that calls Template Toolkit. The
commented out line I simply copied from Perl Template Toolkit (PTT); the line
after it is what I replaced it with after
