I know a few template languages, but can not recognize that syntax. What you can do is use regular expressions:

So you have aa.html which contains: 

<html><body>
<p>before</p>
<include file ="hh.html">
<p>after</p>
</body></html>

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Then a cgi that reads this file and:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
#my $q = CGI->new;

print CGI::header();


my $file_to_read = 'aa.html';
my $html =read_file($file_to_read); 
$html=~s/<\s*include\s+file\s*=\s*"([^"]+)"\s*>/&add_template($1)/gexi
+;
print $html;

sub add_template{
    use File::Slurp qw/read_file/;
    return read_file($_[0]);
}

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The important part is the regexp, that basically is: 

$html =~ s/<include file="([^"]+)">/&add_template($1)/gexi

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It will find the include file template syntax, and replace the found expression with the content of the file...

note: You need to add exception stuff like:

if(!-f $_[0]){
 return "Could not include template '$_[0]' because: NO  FILE"
}elsif(!-r $_[0]){
 return "Could not include template '$_[0]' because: NO ACCESS TO FILE
+";
}

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Also writing "print CGI::header();" is bad form, try to stick to styles like:

cgi_script@perlmeme.org

In reply to Re: displaying html file in the browser using perl by FreeBeerReekingMonk
in thread displaying html file in the browser using perl by tsdesai

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