I am not quite sure where the problem is. print $html; will just print the HTML, not display it in the browser which is a separate program from Perl. If you want something displayed in the browser program, then you have to launch the browser to display it.

I just saved your post as an html file from my browser. On Windows to launch the browser with that file as input goes like below. I do not know on Unix.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;


my $htmlfile_name = 'C:/Documents and Settings/Ira/My Documents/displa
+ying html file in the browser using perl.htm';

system (1, "$htmlfile_name");  #launch in default browser

# program keeps going after browser is launched #

__END__
Comment:
if you use backticks, `$htmlfile_name`, Perl program will 
not continue until browser is closed. Depends upon what
you want to do.
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