Re: [htmltmpl] problems with scalarref

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Jeff Capes wrote:

> HTML::Template->new() : Syntax error in <TMPL_*> tag at
> /fake/path/for/non/file/template : 1. at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Template.pm line 2243.

Any chance you're running Perl 5.8.0 on Redhat 8 or Redhat 9?  If so,
you might have a broken Perl install.

> my $tmpl;
>
> $tmpl = &get_template($tmpl);

What do you see in your error log if you insert this here:

  print STDERR "-----TEMPLATE START----\n\n$tmpl\n\n---TEMPLATE END----\n";

I'm interested to see if $tmpl contains what you think it does.

-sam