I'm not 100% sure I follow you, but may I assume you are doing some sort of server-side include?

Let us therefore assume that the file that contains %!poll!% is a template that is read, and the output is sent to the browser.

In that case you need to open the file, read it line by line, and perform a substitution using a subroutine call. The trick is to use the /e switch on your substitution. Something like:

s/%!poll!%/poll_view/e

... should do the trick nicely. (Assuming the line is being held in $_).

I note in passing that you could use Perl's alternate quoting mechanisms to good effect. Consider the difference between 

print "<td width=\"160\">
           <img src=\"images/left.gif\" width=\"2\" height=\"5\"><img 
+src=\"images/poll.gif\" width=\"$num\" height=\"5\"><img src=\"images
+/right.gif\" width=\"2\" height=\"5\"></td>
           <td width=\"10\" class=\"$ab\">$fin</td></tr>";

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and

print qq{<td width="160">
           <img src="images/left.gif" width="2" height="5"><img src="i
+mages/poll.gif" width="$num" height="5"><img src="images/right.gif" w
+idth="2" height="5"></td>
           <td width="10" class="$ab">$fin</td></tr>};

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print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u'

In reply to Re: including subroutines by grinder
in thread including subroutines by Anonymous Monk

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