NAME

Template::HTML::Variable - An "pretend" string that auto HTML encodes

SYNOPSIS

  use Template::HTML::Variable;

  my $string = Template::HTML::Variable->new('< test & stuff >');

  print $string, "\n";

  # Produces output "&lt; test &amp; stuff &gt;"

DESCRIPTION

This object provides a "pretend" string to use as part of the Template::HTML Template Toolkit extension.

It automatically stringifies to an HTML encoded version of what it was created with, all the while trying to keep a sane state through string concatinations etc.

FUNCTIONS

new()

Takes a single argument which is the string to set this variable to

plain()

Returns a non HTML-encoded version of the string (i.e. exactly what was passed to the new() function

html_encoded()

Returns an HTML encoded version of the string (used by the stringify overloads)

concatequals()

Implementation of overloaded .= operator

clone()

Returns a clone of this variable. (used for the implementation of the overloaded = operator).

AUTHOR

Martyn Smith, <msmith@cpan.org>

COPYTIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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