IF statement in Template Toolkit with Perl

Question

I'm trying to set up a conditional in a .tt2 file using perl. I have an object page that i need to check the title against. however I can't seem to get it to work. where am I going wrong here? I'm just trying to dump out the content at this stage to make sure its working but it just throws a cannot render template error message

    [% IF page.title eq 'User Api List' %]
        [%
        "<pre>";
        USE dumper(indent = 1);
        dumper.dump(page.title) | html
        "</pre>";
        %]
    [% END %]

Answer 1

When I run that code it says:

file error - parse error - test.tt line 3: unexpected token (eq)
  [% IF page.title eq 'User Api List' %]%

Template Toolkit is not Perl.

The comparison operator for strings is == not eq

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You also forgot the ; after | html.