Please anyone would know how I could make the sub weather get its results processed by the index sub and than have the substitutions done in the html template? I got it to work but the result on the browser is the code literally printed on the page and not the result for weather.pl. Thank you for the BIG help! Could be a better way to bring the weather.pl program into the html template in a different way? Thank you for the BIG help!!!!

sub index
{
#&top_nav;
&weather;

#$weatherData = weather();
#$weatherData = &weather();
#$weatherData = &weather;
#$weatherData = main();

&date;
#read in template page for INDEX.HTML#################################
+######
my $templateFileIndex="../temp_test/index.html";
open(INFILE,"<$templateFileIndex");
my @templatePageIndex=<INFILE>;
close(INFILE);
#condense page array into one scalar variable
my $tIndex=join("",@templatePageIndex);

#search-and-replace on date, nav bar and variables

$tIndex=~s/%%INSERT DATE HERE%%/$liveDate/g;
#my $weatherData= &weather;

 
$tIndex=~s/%%WEATHER2%%/$test/g;#This one works jus fine I can make th
+e substitution.

#It doesn't work
#$tIndex=~s/%%WEATHER%%/$weatherData2/g;
#$tIndex=~s/%%WEATHER%%/$weatherData/g;
#$tIndex=~s/%%WEATHER%%/&weather/g;
#$tIndex=~s/%%WEATHER%%/$weather/g;

#done, output page to browser
print $tIndex;

exit
}
######################################################################
+######
sub weather
{
# read in footer template
$foot="c:/progra~1/apache~1/apache/cgi-bin/weather/weather.pl"; #This 
+program print a weather forecast into html page template

open(MYFOOT,"<$foot");
@footerPage=<MYFOOT>;
close(MYFOOT);

#condense page array into one scalar variable
$weather=join("",@footerPage);

$test="Test variable, passing value to html template";
return $weather;
}

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