[Templates] csv file to template data file

[Kenneth Ekdahl]

If I understand your question correctly I would take a look at:
Template::Plugin::Datafile
Which I believe comes with TT.

http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.19/lib/Template/Plugin/Datafile.pm

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:07:20AM -0700, Rick wrote:
> Currently I'm creating the $csv_data by running the above perl script from
> the command line. Then I'm using ttree to process the templates. I know this
> is awkward, which is why I posted here.
> 
> I think that I should call the perl script from within TT2, creating
> $csv_data which can then be used by other templates. Is that right? If so,
> what is the best way to call a perl script from TT2? Also, if I then run
> that script and generate $csv_data from within a preprocessed template, is
> that data accessible to other templates?
> 
> Hoping I'm making sense...
> 
> Rick
> 
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us> wrote:
> 
> > * On Mon, Mar 10 2008, Rick wrote:
> > > Hi all. I'm kinda new to TT2, perl, and programming. My first perl
> > script was
> > > required to read a csv file (from an excel spreadsheet) and write to a
> > template
> > > with the corresponding data structure (an array of arrays), which I
> > could then
> > > preprocess and access from other templates. The following script worked
> > just
> > > fine. However, I would appreciate comments on other (better) ways to
> > accomplish
> > > the same purpose, either in perl or within TT2 itself. (Any perl wisdom
> > > appreciated). Thanks.
> >
> > I'm confused as to why you're dynamically generating the template.  The
> > template should be a static entity you pass data to:
> >
> >  my $csv_data = [ [ 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' ], ['a', 'b', 'c'] ];
> >
> > And then:
> >
> >  [% FOREACH row IN csv_data %]   # row = [qw/foo bar baz/] and then [qw/a
> > b c/]
> >  <tr>
> >   [% FOREACH column IN row %]   # column = 'foo', then 'bar', ...
> >   <td>[% column | html %]</td>
> >   [% END %]
> >  </tr>
> >  [% END %]
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jonathan Rockway
> >

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