Here is the code for what you are trying to do. I assume that you place a token like <TMPL_VAR NAME=TEXT> in the HTML template file: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $template = get_file ( 'c:/some/template.htm' );
my $textfile = get_file ( 'c:/some/textfile.txt' );
$template =~ s/<TMPL_VAR NAME=TEXT>/$textfile/ or die "No token!";
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print $template;

sub get_file {
    my $file = shift;
    open FILE, $file or die "Can't open $file $!\n";
    local $/;
    my $content = <FILE>;
  return $content;
}

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Now as it happens <TMPL_VAR NAME=TEXT> is what you use with HTML::Template. The corresponding code would be: 

use HTML::Template;

# open the html template
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'some/template.html');

# get the text ( get_file() code above)
my $sometext = get_file( '/some/textfile.txt' );

# fill in some parameters
$template->param( TEXT => $sometext );

# send the obligatory Content-Type
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

# print the template
print $template->output;

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If you *really* have a problem with module installation you can install them locally or as a last resort you can ditch the use HTML::Template; line in the code above and just paste the entire module at the end of your code.

cheers

tachyon

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

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