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NAME

       Template::Manual::Filters - Standard filters

format(format)

       The "format" filter takes a format string as a parameter (as per "printf()") and formats
       each line of text accordingly.

           [% FILTER format('<!-- %-40s -->') %]
           This is a block of text filtered
           through the above format.
           [% END %]

       Output:

           <!-- This is a block of text filtered        -->
           <!-- through the above format.               -->

upper

       Folds the input to UPPER CASE.

           [% "hello world" FILTER upper %]

       Output:

           HELLO WORLD

lower

       Folds the input to lower case.

           [% "Hello World" FILTER lower %]

       Output:

           hello world

ucfirst

       Folds the first character of the input to UPPER CASE.

           [% "hello" FILTER ucfirst %]

       Output:

           Hello

lcfirst

       Folds the first character of the input to lower case.

           [% "HELLO" FILTER lcfirst %]

       Output:

           hELLO

trim

       Trims any leading or trailing whitespace from the input text.  Particularly useful in
       conjunction with "INCLUDE", "PROCESS", etc., having the same effect as the "TRIM"
       configuration option.

           [% INCLUDE myfile | trim %]

collapse

       Collapse any whitespace sequences in the input text into a single space.  Leading and
       trailing whitespace (which would be reduced to a single space) is removed, as per trim.

           [% FILTER collapse %]

              The   cat

              sat    on

              the   mat

           [% END %]

       Output:

           The cat sat on the mat

html

       Converts the characters "<", ">", "&" and """ to "&lt;", "&gt;", "&amp;", and "&quot;"
       respectively, protecting them from being interpreted as representing HTML tags or
       entities.

           [% FILTER html %]
           Binary "<=>" returns -1, 0, or 1 depending on...
           [% END %]

       Output:

           Binary "&lt;=&gt;" returns -1, 0, or 1 depending on...

html_entity

       The "html" filter is fast and simple but it doesn't encode the full range of HTML entities
       that your text may contain.  The "html_entity" filter uses either the "Apache::Util"
       module (which is written in C and is therefore faster) or the "HTML::Entities" module
       (written in Perl but equally as comprehensive) to perform the encoding.

       If one or other of these modules are installed on your system then the text will be
       encoded (via the "escape_html()" or "encode_entities()" subroutines respectively) to
       convert all extended characters into their appropriate HTML entities (e.g. converting
       '"?"' to '"&eacute;"'). If neither module is available on your system then an
       '"html_entity"' exception will be thrown reporting an appropriate message.

       If you want to force TT to use one of the above modules in preference to the other, then
       call either of the Template::Filters class methods: use_html_entities() or
       use_apache_util().

           use Template::Filters;
           Template::Filters->use_html_entities;

       For further information on HTML entity encoding, see
       <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html>.

xml

       Same as the "html" filter, but adds "&apos;" which is the fifth XML built-in entity.

html_para

       This filter formats a block of text into HTML paragraphs.  A sequence of two or more
       newlines is used as the delimiter for paragraphs which are then wrapped in HTML
       "<p>"..."</p>" tags.

           [% FILTER html_para %]
           The cat sat on the mat.

           Mary had a little lamb.
           [% END %]

       Output:

           <p>
           The cat sat on the mat.
           </p>

           <p>
           Mary had a little lamb.
           </p>

html_break / html_para_break

       Similar to the html_para filter described above, but uses the HTML tag sequence "<br><br>"
       to join paragraphs.

           [% FILTER html_break %]
           The cat sat on the mat.

           Mary had a little lamb.
           [% END %]

       Output:

           The cat sat on the mat.
           <br>
           <br>
           Mary had a little lamb.

html_line_break

       This filter replaces any newlines with "<br>" HTML tags, thus preserving the line breaks
       of the original text in the HTML output.

           [% FILTER html_line_break %]
           The cat sat on the mat.
           Mary had a little lamb.
           [% END %]

       Output:

           The cat sat on the mat.<br>
           Mary had a little lamb.<br>

uri

       This filter URI escapes the input text, converting any characters outside of the permitted
       URI character set (as defined by RFC 3986) into a %nn hex escape.

           [% 'my file.html' | uri %]

       Output:

           my%20file.html

       The uri filter correctly encodes all reserved characters, including "&", "@", "/", ";",
       ":", "=", "+", "?" and "$".  This filter is typically used to encode parameters in a URL
       that could otherwise be interpreted as part of the URL.  Here's an example:

           [% path  = 'http://tt2.org/example'
              back  = '/other?foo=bar&baz=bam'
              title = 'Earth: "Mostly Harmless"'
           %]
           <a href="[% path %]?back=[% back | uri %]&title=[% title | uri %]">

       The output generated is rather long so we'll show it split across two lines:

           <a href="http://tt2.org/example?back=%2Fother%3Ffoo%3Dbar%26
           baz%3Dbam&title=Earth%3A%20%22Mostly%20Harmless%22">

       Without the uri filter the output would look like this (also split across two lines).

           <a href="http://tt2.org/example?back=/other?foo=bar
           &baz=bam&title=Earth: "Mostly Harmless"">

       In this rather contrived example we've manage to generate both a broken URL (the repeated
       "?" is not allowed) and a broken HTML element (the href attribute is terminated by the
       first """ after "Earth: " leaving "Mostly Harmless"" dangling on the end of the tag in
       precisely the way that harmless things shouldn't dangle). So don't do that. Always use the
       uri filter to encode your URL parameters.

       However, you should not use the uri filter to encode an entire URL.

          <a href="[% page_url | uri %]">   # WRONG!

       This will incorrectly encode any reserved characters like ":" and "/" and that's almost
       certainly not what you want in this case.  Instead you should use the url (note spelling)
       filter for this purpose.

          <a href="[% page_url | url %]">   # CORRECT

       Please note that this behaviour was changed in version 2.16 of the Template Toolkit.
       Prior to that, the uri filter did not encode the reserved characters, making it
       technically incorrect according to the RFC 2396 specification (since superceded by RFC2732
       and RFC3986).  So we fixed it in 2.16 and provided the url filter to implement the old
       behaviour of not encoding reserved characters.

       As of version 2.26 of the Template Toolkit, the "uri" and url filters use the unsafe
       character set defined by RFC3986.  This means that certain characters ("(", ")", "~", "*",
       "!" and the single quote "'") are now deemed unsafe and will be escaped as hex character
       sequences.  The double quote character ('"') is now deemed safe and will not be escaped.

       If you want to enable the old behaviour then call the "use_rfc2732()" method in
       Template::Filters

           use Template::Filters
           Template::Filters->use_rfc2732;

url

       The url filter is a less aggressive version of the uri filter.  It encodes any characters
       outside of the permitted URI character set (as defined by RFC 2396) into %nn hex escapes.
       However, unlike the uri filter, the url filter does not encode the reserved characters
       "&", "@", "/", ";", ":", "=", "+", "?" and "$".

indent(pad)

       Indents the text block by a fixed pad string or width.  The '"pad"' argument can be
       specified as a string, or as a numerical value to indicate a pad width (spaces).  Defaults
       to 4 spaces if unspecified.

           [% FILTER indent('ME> ') %]
           blah blah blah
           cabbages, rhubard, onions
           [% END %]

       Output:

           ME> blah blah blah
           ME> cabbages, rhubard, onions

truncate(length,dots)

       Truncates the text block to the length specified, or a default length of 32.  Truncated
       text will be terminated with '"..."' (i.e. the '"..."'  falls inside the required length,
       rather than appending to it).

           [% FILTER truncate(21) %]
           I have much to say on this matter that has previously
           been said on more than one occasion.
           [% END %]

       Output:

           I have much to say...

       If you want to use something other than '"..."' you can pass that as a second argument.

           [% FILTER truncate(26, '&hellip;') %]
           I have much to say on this matter that has previously
           been said on more than one occasion.
           [% END %]

       Output:

           I have much to say&hellip;

repeat(iterations)

       Repeats the text block for as many iterations as are specified (default: 1).

           [% FILTER repeat(3) %]
           We want more beer and we want more beer,
           [% END %]
           We are the more beer wanters!

       Output:

           We want more beer and we want more beer,
           We want more beer and we want more beer,
           We want more beer and we want more beer,
           We are the more beer wanters!

remove(string)

       Searches the input text for any occurrences of the specified string and removes them.  A
       Perl regular expression may be specified as the search string.

           [% "The  cat  sat  on  the  mat" FILTER remove('\s+') %]

       Output:

           Thecatsatonthemat

replace(search, replace)

       Similar to the remove filter described above, but taking a second parameter which is used
       as a replacement string for instances of the search string.

           [% "The  cat  sat  on  the  mat" | replace('\s+', '_') %]

       Output:

           The_cat_sat_on_the_mat

redirect(file, options)

       The "redirect" filter redirects the output of the block into a separate file, specified
       relative to the "OUTPUT_PATH" configuration item.

           [% FOREACH user IN myorg.userlist %]
              [% FILTER redirect("users/${user.id}.html") %]
                 [% INCLUDE userinfo %]
              [% END %]
           [% END %]

       or more succinctly, using side-effect notation:

           [%  FOREACH user IN myorg.userlist;
                 INCLUDE userinfo
                   FILTER redirect("users/${user.id}.html");
               END
           %]

       A "file" exception will be thrown if the "OUTPUT_PATH" option is undefined.

       An optional "binmode" argument can follow the filename to explicitly set the output file
       to binary mode.

           [% PROCESS my/png/generator
                FILTER redirect("images/logo.png", binmode=1) %]

       For backwards compatibility with earlier versions, a single true/false value can be used
       to set binary mode.

           [% PROCESS my/png/generator
                FILTER redirect("images/logo.png", 1) %]

       For the sake of future compatibility and clarity, if nothing else, we would strongly
       recommend you explicitly use the named "binmode" option as shown in the first example.

eval / evaltt

       The "eval" filter evaluates the block as template text, processing any directives embedded
       within it.  This allows template variables to contain template fragments, or for some
       method to be provided for returning template fragments from an external source such as a
       database, which can then be processed in the template as required.

           my $vars  = {
               fragment => "The cat sat on the [% place %]",
           };
           $template->process($file, $vars);

       The following example:

           [% fragment | eval %]

       is therefore equivalent to

           The cat sat on the [% place %]

       The "evaltt" filter is provided as an alias for "eval".

perl / evalperl

       The "perl" filter evaluates the block as Perl code.  The "EVAL_PERL" option must be set to
       a true value or a "perl" exception will be thrown.

           [% my_perl_code | perl %]

       In most cases, the "[% PERL %]" ... "[% END %]" block should suffice for evaluating Perl
       code, given that template directives are processed before being evaluate as Perl.  Thus,
       the previous example could have been written in the more verbose form:

           [% PERL %]
           [% my_perl_code %]
           [% END %]

       as well as

           [% FILTER perl %]
           [% my_perl_code %]
           [% END %]

       The "evalperl" filter is provided as an alias for "perl" for backwards compatibility.

stdout(options)

       The stdout filter prints the output generated by the enclosing block to "STDOUT".  The
       "binmode" option can be passed as either a named parameter or a single argument to set
       "STDOUT" to binary mode (see the binmode perl function).

           [% PROCESS something/cool
                  FILTER stdout(binmode=1) # recommended %]

           [% PROCESS something/cool
                  FILTER stdout(1)         # alternate %]

       The "stdout" filter can be used to force "binmode" on "STDOUT", or also inside "redirect",
       "null" or "stderr" blocks to make sure that particular output goes to "STDOUT". See the
       "null" filter below for an example.

stderr

       The stderr filter prints the output generated by the enclosing block to "STDERR".

null

       The "null" filter prints nothing.  This is useful for plugins whose methods return values
       that you don't want to appear in the output.  Rather than assigning every plugin method
       call to a dummy variable to silence it, you can wrap the block in a null filter:

           [% FILTER null;
               USE im = GD.Image(100,100);
               black = im.colorAllocate(0,   0, 0);
               red   = im.colorAllocate(255,0,  0);
               blue  = im.colorAllocate(0,  0,  255);
               im.arc(50,50,95,75,0,360,blue);
               im.fill(50,50,red);
               im.png | stdout(1);
              END;
           -%]

       Notice the use of the "stdout" filter to ensure that a particular expression generates
       output to "STDOUT" (in this case in binary mode).