Re: Variables within variables.
Bruno Postle <[email protected]>
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I was just fixing some (really stupid) mistakes in the Petal
QUICKSTART pod documentation and found the answer to this question.
On Tue 17-May-2005 at 20:35 -0400, Josh Narins wrote:
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> What I want, in perl, would look like this.
>
> $tal->{onething}->{ $tal->{otherthing} }
>
> I tried
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> string:stuff${onething/${otherthing}}
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> but it didn't work.
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> Is this supported, or should I work around?
The Petal docs say this:
You cannot write nested expressions such as:
${my_var/hello_world ${my_var/current_user}}
This will NOT work. At least, not yet.
So I guess that means you can't :-P
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Bruno