Display array in multi-column table using template tookit?

Question

I have an array of phone numbers. I want to display these numbers in a table, 5 numbers per row. Can I do this in Template Toolkit without modifying my data structure?

Answer 1

You can use the plugin Template::Plugin::Table:

[% USE table(phone_numbers, cols=5) %]

[% FOREACH row IN table.rows %]
   [% FOREACH item IN row %]
      [% item %]
   [% END %]
[% END %]

phone_numbers is a reference to the phone number array which should be passed to Template Toolkit. Example:

...
$data->{phone_numbers} = \@phone_numbers;

$template->process('example.tmpl', $data) 
   || die "Template processing failed: ", $template->error(), "\n";