Hi, I have an interesting problem which should be easy to solve, but I haven't yet. I have a Perl script that takes information from an Access database and publishes it in two HTML files, an index.htm and an index_content.htm. Index_content.htm is actually an INCLUDE in index.htm.

Once the information is published and the script is run, the two pages are created, and the include is shown correctly in FrontPage.

However, when I go to view index.htm in a regular browser, the include (index_content.htm) is NOT showing up in index.htm, although in the source, there is clearly HTML code for the include. Here is the perl code that does this: 
############ WRITE INDEX FILE

  print "writing $web_target/index.htm\n";

  open(OUTFILE, "> $outdir$web_target/index.htm");

 start_narrow_page(\*OUTFILE, "$field2{title}", $field5{stylesheet2});


########THIS IS THE INCLUDE HTML CODE##################;
print OUTFILE "<p><span class=\"title\"></span><!--webbot bot=\"Includ
+e\" U-Include=\"index_content.htm\" -->";
########THIS IS THE INCLUDE HTML CODE##################;


  end_narrow_page(\*OUTFILE, "######\@###.lmco.com");

  close(OUTFILE);

  print LOGFILE "$web_target/index.htm\n";



############ WRITE INDEX_CONTENT FILE

  print "writing $web_target/index_content.htm\n";

  open(OUTFILE, "> $outdir$web_target/index_content.htm");

  # start_narrow_page(\*OUTFILE, "$field2{title}", $field5{stylesheet2
+});

        #blah blah blah;
        #blah blah blah;


  # end_narrow_page(\*OUTFILE, "########@####.lmco.com");

  close(OUTFILE);

  print LOGFILE "$web_target/index_content.htm\n";

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I have tried opening and closing the file in FrontPage, that doesn't work. I have tried refreshing the page all over the place. That doesn't work either. If anyone has an idea of how to get this include to come up in a browser, please let me know. I am new to this site in general and I hope someone has an idea.
Thank you,
Pilot

In reply to Puzzling Include Problem by Pilot

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