Re: [Templates] correct usage of Dumper plugin

> [% Dumper.dump_html( data ) %]

 >   [% Dumper.dump_html( data ) %]

Ah, I never noticed that dump_html method. Sounds like that will do the 
trick.

Thanks for your help Dave.

jamie

Dave Cash wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Jamie Echlin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Someone else has also suggested that - it doesn;t actually seem to work
>>but I'm assuming it's because there is some hidden USE Dumper that I
>>haven't found, and it does work.
> 
> 
> Jamie,
> 
> OK, sorry for the poorly researched reply.  How about this?
> 
>   [% USE Dumper( Indent=0 ) %]
> 
> then later in your HTML:
> 
>   [% Dumper.dump_html( data ) %]
> 
> and somewhere in your plain text:
> 
>   [% Dumper.dump( data ) %]
> 
> The difference between dump and dump_html is just the addition of
> these transformations in dump_html:
> 
>   s/&/&amp;/g;
>   s/</&lt;/g;
>   s/>/&gt;/g;
>   s/\n/<br>\n/g;
> 
> Which all seem like things you would want to happen when dumping to
> a browser.
> 
> BTW, it seems like the reason my previous suggestion doesn't work is
> because setting the Indent and Pad via the constructor seem to be
> setting the correlating $Data::Dumper::Indent and $Data::Dumper::Pad
> values globally, which will affect ever Template::Plugin::Dumper
> object.  I imagine that's one of the reasons why the author created
> a dump_html method.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Dave
> 
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