> From: "pm5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:23:18 +0800
> Subject: [Templates] Parsing text by template
...
> For example, given the following plaintext (foo.txt):
> Hello, Peggy. You have 2 messages:
> Liz Re: the program you asked
> Alice I GOT IT!!!
> And the following template (foo.tpl):
> Hello, [% name %]. You have [% messages.length %] messages:
> [% FOREACH m=messages %]
> [% m.sender_name %] [% m.subject %]
> [% END %]
You could extract delimited data from a text file with Datafile, as
documented below. and figure out the number of messages in the
calling template automatically.
Datafile
Provides an interface to data stored in a plain text file in a simple
delimited format. The first line in the file specifies field names
which should be delimiter by any non-word character
sequence. Subsequent lines define data using the same delimiter as int
he first line. Blank lines and comments (lines starting '#') are
ignored. See Template::Plugin::Datafile for further details.
/tmp/mydata:
# define names for each field
id : email : name : tel
# here's the data
fred : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Fred Smith : 555-1234
bill : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bill White : 555-5678
example:
[% USE userlist = datafile('/tmp/mydata') %]
[% FOREACH user = userlist %]
[% user.name %] ([% user.id %])
[% END %]
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Richard Tietjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.pobox.com/~rdtietjen
"Irony is what they make two-edged swords from."
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