Re: [htmltmpl] H::T chunking of templates

[Pete P. <pet...@cy...>]

Mathew Robertson wrote:
>>>I was looking through H::T when I noticed that it splits the incoming template using:
>>>
>>>    split ( /(?<=)/ ,  $template)
>>>
>>>This regex ends up splitting on every '<'.
>>>
>>>I have modified my version to use:
>>>
>>>    split( m!(?=<(?:\!--\s*)?/?[Tt][Mm][Pp][Ll]_)! , $template)
>>>
>>>which thus matches only on <TMPL_ and </TMPL_ tags.
>>>
>>
>>Won't this break if you use the <!-- TMPL... --> constructs of putting 
>>the TMPL tags within HTML comments?
> 
> 
> Not from my testing it didn't; this regex only matches on:
> 
>    <TMPL_
>    </TMPL_
>    <!-- TMPL_
>    <!-- /TMPL_
> 
> doesn't matter where the TMPL_ construct is located.
> 
> However you could be right as there may be some cases where the regex doesn't quite match correctly, although I cant think of such a situation.

Ah, now I see. I read the text you wrote instead of the regex because, 
you know, I'm not a regex engine. ;)

Of course *had* I properly read the regex you wrote, I would have 
figured it out.

Couldn't you use a case-insensitive match though to avoid the 
[Tt][Mm][Pp][Ll] part?


Pete