How can I handle hash keys containing illegal identifier characters in Template Toolkit?
In Template Toolkit, if I have the following variable containing a hashref: [% artist = { 'life-span' => '1975 to 1987', } %] What is the best way to output the data in 'life-span'? I have tried... [% artist.life-span %] ^This fails because of the hyphen. [% artist.'life-span' %] ^This fails because the syntax is incorrect. [% lifespan = 'life-span' %] [% artist.$lifespan %] ^This works, but is impractical in a large app with lots of data. Is there a better way? The project I'm working on is a Catalyst based web app and the data comes from a number of different external web services, so I do