what's the right tool for text file templates?

Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 15:00:02 UTC 2005


You'll have to dig a bit, but some years ago an SSP implementation by
(IIRC) Stephen Pair did just that. I think it was simple and flexible
enough to be used not just for webpages..

On 11/29/05, Larry White <ljw1001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to be able to read a text file and have it programmatically perform
> substitution on some of the text.
>
>  The requirement is for something akin to "smalltalk server pages" although
> this isn't for a web app.
>
>  I just want to be able to read a file containing the text "Hello, <%name%>.
>  Welcome to my world." and have it return as a string
>  "Hello, Joe.  Welcome to my world."
>
>  Is this functionality available in squeak somewhere, perhaps as part of a
> web server framework?
>
>  thanks.
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