I can find all sorts of weird information about templates in Perl, but nothing about what they actually are.
Are they generic types like in C++? Is it a class-like structure? Or maybe something else?
You don't link to any of the 'weird information' you found, but there is no language construct in Perl called 'templates'.
Generally, I expect the subject of any article on Perl and templating to be about text output; a template to generate HTML, or an email, for example. The Text::Template and HTML::Template modules being canonical examples.
answered Aug 18 '12 at 15:28
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template-toolkit.org/docs/tutorial/Web.html ; for example. Also, could it have something to do with regex? – Michael Aug 18 '12 at 15:38
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@Michael: The tutorial you link to is doing exactly what I described; using a template to produce HTML output. Text templating could be done using regular expressions, but that's not necessary (nor necessarily a good idea). – Martijn Pieters Aug 18 '12 at 15:50
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Ok, thanks. Now that I look at it further, the examples given in the link I provided are pretty straightforward. Initially, I googled it and all the sites that came up were awkward (like this: stackoverflow.com/questions/3790253/…). – Michael Aug 18 '12 at 21:43
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@Michael: Right; that's someone asking for a template to use when starting a new Perl source file. :-) – Martijn Pieters Aug 18 '12 at 22:47
