Many thanks to Andrew and Mike — your suggestions worked and gave me a lot to
think about as well!
That’s what love about this mailing list: I always learn a lot!
Rick Triplett
> I hope somebody has replied already.
> If not, in general you are reading data from DATA,
> creating an array and a hash, and then creating an
> html file using the Template Toolkit.
>
> I think much of it looks good, but I see no
> use Template::Toolkit
> or anything similar.
> Do you have that? I suspect you do.
> Maybe you should post that part too.
>
>
> Also, this line looks suspicious to me:
> my %list = (list => \@courses);
>
> Maybe that is intended to be an array ref.
>
> Perhaps right after that you should put this:
>
> print "\%list contains this:\n\n";
> foreach my $key (sort keys %list){
> print "$key - $list{$key}\n";
> }
> On Oct 28, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Andrew Solomon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> The bug is that you're calling
>
> my %list = (list => \@courses);
>
> when you should be calling
>
> my %list = (courses => \@courses);
>
> If only there were 'strict' and 'warnings' for Template! :-)
>
> Andrew
>
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 8:52 PM Rick T <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> As a novice in perl I realize that it’s a bit presumptuous for me to attempt
> references and complex data structures. But I had a need and gave it a shot —
> a failing shot. I’ve been fiddling with my failure, almost mindlessly, all
> weekend; now I need some help.
>
> Below is the template segment I am trying to populate with data, and
> following it is the segment of code that attempts to call it. The output I
> get in my browser is persistently empty, with every instance of [% %] being
> replaced with blanks.
