Hi,

I'm trying to concatenate some strings and a CGI variable together so I can create the template name to be used in my program. Below is what I have, but I get the error message,

"HTML::Template->new() : Cannot open included file $rpt_tmpl : file not found. at HTML/Template.pm line 1580".

Am I using HTML::Template incorrectly? If I hard-code what I want (cnc1_rpt1_summary.tmpl), it works beautimously and my $rpt_id value is "1".

Thanks for any help you can provide! 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5_8
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); #remove for PRD
use HTML::Template;
use DBI;
use My::pswd;
my $CGI = CGI->new;

$|=1;
print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

my $err;
my $server = $My::pswd::server;
my $userid = $My::pswd::userid;
my $passwd = $My::pswd::passwd;

my $rpt_id = $CGI->param('rpt_id');
my $proj_id = $CGI->param('proj_id');
my $rpt_asofdt = $CGI->param('rpt_asofdt');
my $rpt_tmpl = "cnc1_rpt" . "$rpt_id" . "_summary.tmpl";

my $template = HTML::Template->new( filename => '$rpt_tmpl',
                                     associate => $CGI,
                                   );

#.... and then a bunch of other stuff (fetch data, 
#fetch futzed (for now) params to pass to template ....

print $template->output();

#temp:  just to show my variable values; remove for PRD
print "my rpt_id is:      $rpt_id<br>";
print "my proj_id is:     $proj_id<br>";
print "my rpt_asofdt is:  $rpt_asofdt<br>";
print "Good-bye Cruel World.\n";

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Lori

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