in reply to About HTML::Template

First, drop everything and go read jeffa's tutorial on HTML::Template. But the HTML should look something like this (untested model code): 

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
    <TMPL_VAR NAME=Title>
</title>
</head>

<BODY>
Here's the text from the .txt file<br>
     <TMPL_LOOP NAME=Text>
          <TMPL_VAR NAME=Line><br>
     </TMPL_LOOP>
</body>
</html>

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But that's a LOT of work. If all you want to do is print a text file to a screen, then just crank up CGI.pm, and print the contents (untested model code): 
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header;
print start_html('My Text File');

open (TEXTFILE, "my_text_file") or die "Cannot open text file: $!";

while (<TEXTFILE>) {
    chomp;
    print $_, p;
}

close (TEXTFILE) or die "Cannot close file: $!";
print end_html;

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No need to use HTML::Template to do all that work.

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.

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