Unfortunately, recreating the functionality of a Templating system like Mason, HTML::Template, or Template Toolkit, most likely will take you more time than getting that sysadmin to install these modules, that and all 3 solutions are very stable and well tested.

Not that either of the other systems are not excellent choices, but I prefer Template Toolkit. IMO it is very easy to get up and running and will work with *nix, Win32, Apache, and IIS. Take a look a the tutorial .

If it helps the install for Template Toolkit takes less than 5 minutes


FWIW my company has just completed a DB driven dynamic website with TT in about 50 lines of perl code.

grep
grep> cd /pub
grep> more beer

In reply to Re: perl fool - inserting text into html doc by grep
in thread perl fool - inserting text into html doc by cameltrader

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