I'm new to Perl so bear with me on this. I would like to use templates in my Perl programs but I can't quite get them to work. I would like to take the file and put it onto the screen... okay, I can see you scratching your head by now. What I want to do is place variables in the .tmpl file so that when the whole thing is executed, it shows what I want it to show. For instance, when I have the file, my.tmpl, it might look something like this: 
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>$Title
</title>
</head>

<BODY>
Here's the text from the .txt file<br>
@Text
</body>
</html>

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So I could then add something like this to my Perl code. 
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'my.tmpl');
print $template->output;
exit;

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Yet it doesn't want to work. Can you highly trained Monks help me?

In reply to About HTML::Template by Anonymous Monk

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