To offer a more perlish (and flexable) solution. Template Toolkit offers a very simple way to accomplish your goal.

Just create a template like this

template.tmpl 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>HTML File</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    [% INCLUDE 'events.txt' %]
  </body>
</html>

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The perl code looks like this

use Template;
use CGI;

my $q = CGI->new();
my $t = Template->new({INCLUDE_PATH => 'template/'});

$t->process('template.tmpl') or die "Template process failed: ", $t->e
+rror(), "\n";

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You can even put logic inside the template

...
[% IF var = 'what I want' %]
   [% INCLUDE 'this_file.tmpl' %]
[% ELSE %]
   [% FOREACH x = myarray %]
     <tr><td>[% INCLUDE x %]</td></tr>
   [% END %]
[% END %]
...

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grep
Just me, the boy and these two monks, no questions asked.

In reply to Re: substituting strings in HTML with text files by grep
in thread substituting strings in HTML with text files by cal

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