Re: interpolation question

[Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>]

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, August Detlefsen wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from August Detlefsen <augustd@idiom.com>     ******
> 
> Try using perl to set the value to a scratch variable, like this:
> 
> [perl interpolate=1]
> $Vend::Session->{'scratch'}->{'private_label_name'} = '[data ...]';
> [/perl]
> 
> Minivend's Safe module might not consider this operation acceptable, so you might have to do it as a globalsub, but I've used this technique before for setting scratch vars. You'll be able to call it with:
> 
> [scratch private_label_name]
> 

Hmm, I'll give this a shot too.  I was already using something like the
[perl] block above.  Mike responded and clarified a lot of things for me
as well.

Best,
Kyle