variable pairs

Hello everyone. I was wondering if someone could give me assistance regarding the variable pair parsing.

I have read the docs, but have noticed a lot of $TMPL methods aren’t even mentioned there, and the example shown isn’t very helpful I have also tried looking through the amazon API, weblog module, and a few others as suggested in the docs, but they were a little to complex for me to understand.

Basically I have several arrays from which I need to insert into single variables that are between variable pairs. like so:

{exp:myPlugin:myMethod}
{var_pair_1}
{title}
{date}
{/var_pair_1}

{var_pair_2}
{something else}
{and another}
{/var_pair_2}
{/exp:myPlugin:myMethod}

so am I correct in saying that variable pairs are meant for looping? How do you control the looping?

I tried the following to get started:

$tagdata = $TMPL->tagdata //get everything between the main tags
foreach { $TMPL-var_pair as $key=>$val) //the var pair array
{    foreach( $myArray as $row ) //the content I want to use
    {
        if  (ereg("^item", $key) //find the {item} tag
        {
            $tagdata = $TMPL->swap_var_single( 'title', $row['title'], $tagdata) //swap out the single variables
        }
    }
}

I know this is by no means correct, but im stuck! please help!