Bug #131186 for Config-Natural: Using Config::Natural arrays to populate HTML::Template

Here is the platform: Linux yak.bobcatos.com 2.6.32-754.24.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 14 15:35:16 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi Config::Natural v1.01 HTML::Template v2.97 I'm having trouble getting array data into my template. For this config file fragment: fruits = ( apple banana kiwi orange ) How do I interpolate that into the template: <tmpl_loop name="fruits"> <tmpl_var name="fruit"> is a fruit. </tmpl_loop> Now if I use in my perl script: my $config = new Config::Natural { auto_create_surrounding_list => 1 }, "test.cfg"; and my config file is: fruit = apple fruit = banana fruit = kiwi fruit = orange Then I can in my perl script: my $fruitref = $config->value_of("/fruits[*]"); my $tmpl = new HTML::Template type => 'filename', source => "test.tmpl", die_on_bad_params => 0, global_vars => 1, associate => $config; $tmpl->param('fruits' => $fruitref); and the above template works. Howver, it breaks if there is only one fruit because "fruits" is not defined. That's not surprising since Config::Natural does some back-office finagling to create the fruits array only when it sees multiple "fruit = ". Furthermore, some of my data has 20 or 30 items in the array and putting that many key = value1 key = value2 . . . is a non-starter. I have implemented an ugly kluge which requires embedding some HTML into my Perl script, but it violates the principle of keeping those things separate. I really want to use the first config format without kluges. Is there a way? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob@bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Psalm 34:8