Re: somevar = BLOCK and passing switches

I don't think it's making an anonymous block ... I think it's evaluating
the block and assigning a string to some_name, which you can then print.
It's not like some_name is a subroutine.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Summer <crazysummer2004-/[email protected]> wrote:

> well, it won't work that way because I am using it as an anonymous block..
> ie.
>
> [%
> some_name = BLOCK;
>  # ton of data
> END;
> %]
>
> If I try to call it like so: PROCESS some_name, I get a stack trace which
> complains about that block not existing.
>
> The way you propose would be the standard block declaration:
>
> BLOCK some_name;
>
> END;
>
> That will work, but the problem is I don't want to process all that info
> again. I want to process it once then display that output 'n' number of
> times... except one of those times, I want some data omitted.
>
> thanks
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Larry Leszczynski <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 8, 2013 4:49 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Templates] somevar = BLOCK and passing switches
>
> Hi Summer -
>
> > [% some_name; token_to_omit =1 %]
> >
> > some_name does not respect that variable "token_to_omit"
>
> Did you try:
>
> [% PROCESS some_name token_to_omit=1 %]
>
> (No semicolon after "some_name".)
>
> http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Directives.html#section_BLOCK
>
>
> HTH,
> Larry
>
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