Scoping Help Please

Monday 14 February 2005 2:27:30 pm

Hi all,
Im having some issues with variable scoping.
The code below is used in a drop down menu where I want to pad the output with non breaking spaces. Note that I tried using pad but it only seemed to want one character and I couldnt use  . If you know how to use pad in that manner I would love to see how, but I need to understand the scoping anyway.
Im using 3.4.4 The padding_string variable is the one I need to get correctly, the frog/dog/cat etc are my testing (only frog works).

{section name=menuloop loop=$menu_items}
   {set itempadding = $padding|sub($item.object.data_map.short_name.content|count_chars)
      frog='FFFF'
   }
   
   {section name=paddingloop loop=$itempadding}
         {set menuloop:padding_string=concat($menuloop:padding_string,"B")}
         {set menuloop:cat='CCCCC'}
         {set dog='DDDDD'}
   {/section}
	<li>
	   <a href={$menuloop:item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$menuloop:item.object.data_map.short_name.content}{$menuloop:padding_string}{$menuloop:frog}{$menuloop:cat}{$cat}{$menuloop:dog}{$dog}{$paddingloop:dog}{$menuloop:paddingloop:dog}{$menuloop:paddingloop.dog}</a>
	</li>
{/section}

Any help greatly appreciated.

cheers

Arran