Hi, I'm new here, and I have a question. I am working on a script that one of the components is reading in a html file and then printing it at the appropriate place. I did this fine in a test file, it is coded like this: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use CGI qw(:standard :html3);

#print "hello\n";

$locat = "../../htdocs/elghome/material_office.html";

print header, start_html;

open (FILE1, $locat) || die  ("Material_Office open failed: $!");
while (<FILE1>)
{
    $page .= $_;
}
close(FILE1);

print "$page\n";
print end_html;

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Now I put most of that code into another working script, one of the many I want to use it on. And strange enough, it does not work. I have gone through varios tests to see why, but the only thing I know, is that for some reason it is not reading it in correctly. The code I use in the other script is: 
    $locat = "www.nsn.org/elghome/material_office2.htm";
    open (HTMLP,$locat);
    while (<HTMLP>)
    {
         $pageht .= $_;
    }
    close(HTMLP);

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Further down I use this code to print it out: 
    <hr>
    <p>$pageht
    <hr>

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I do get the 2 lines but, with nothing inbetween. And it works in a script all by itself. If anyone has suggestions, I would be more than happy to try anything. Thanks, Midnite

In reply to Printing a Html Page by Midnite

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