=head1 A SIMPLE DELETE FEATURE
-Turning out attention to the delete portion of CRUD, this section
+Turning our attention to the delete portion of CRUD, this section
illustrates some basic techniques that can be used to remove information
from the database.
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[% # First initialize a TT variable to hold a list. Then use a TT FOREACH -%]
[% # loop in 'side effect notation' to load just the last names of the -%]
- [% # authors into the list. Note that we are making a bogus assignment to -%]
- [% # the 'xx' vbl to avoid printing the size of the list after each push. -%]
+ [% # authors into the list. Note that the 'push' TT vmethod does not -%]
+ [% # a value, so nothing will be printed here. But, if you have something -%]
+ [% # in TT that does return a method and you don't want it printed, you -%]
+ [% # can: 1) assign it to a bogus value, or 2) use the CALL keyword to -%]
+ [% # call it and discard the return value. -%]
[% tt_authors = [ ];
- xx = tt_authors.push(author.last_name) FOREACH author = book.authors %]
+ tt_authors.push(author.last_name) FOREACH author = book.authors %]
[% # Now use a TT 'virtual method' to display the author count -%]
([% tt_authors.size %])
- [% # Use another TT virtual method to join the names with comma separators -%]
+ [% # Use another TT vmethod to join & print the names & comma separators -%]
[% tt_authors.join(', ') %]
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