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Version Location Description Submitted By
Printed Page 116
3rd paragraph

The last line should be
"Slartibartfast is from Magrethea"
Should be:
"Slartibartfast from Magrethea",

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 209
2nd paragraph, demonstrating 'dir' method

The 'dir' method example incorrectly reuses the 'name' method from the previous
example, rather than itself. E.g.:

[% file.name %]

when it should be:

[% file.dir %]

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 303
Sample code for Template::Plugin::Filter

The example code as shown does not work.
The first line in the filter subroutine:

sub filter {
my $text = shift;

should be corrected to:

sub filter {
my ($self, $text) = @_;

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 398
follows 3rd paragraph

The excerpt from Example 11-3 (page 396) misquotes a line:

define rooturl = /ttbook/index.html

should be:

define rooturl = /ttbook

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 398
Second paragraph of section "Simple pre-process and wrapper Templates"

The text reads "... It sets a single variable, msg. We will be displaying this value...", but the variable in question is called "message" --- rather than "msg" --- elsewhere in the text and Examples.

 Simon Dawson 
Printed Page 428
Example 11-44

I am almost certain that there is an error with config/expand on page 428 of the
book.
The section of the code
IF item.here;
page.prev = map.page.${loop.last};
page.next = map.page.${loop.next};
END
page.prev was appearing undefined when I was working on the Previous and Next
navigation in example 11-54.

When I changed the page.prev line to

page.prev = map.page.${loop.prev}; the code behaved as expected.

Am I right in thinking that the example in the book would only have page.prev set as
true if the iterator is currently on the last iteration of the set?

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 477
last paragraph (last line before footnote)

$param =~ s/*/\%/g; # change '*' to '%'

is not correct. The naked asterisk in the regex means "0 or more characters."
However, your intention (as stated by the comment, in fact) is to change actual
asterisks in the string value to percent characters. Therefore, the asterisk must be
escaped. So this line should be as follows:

$param =~ s/*/\%/g; # change '*' to '%'

 Anonymous