OK, i re-worked the code a lil bit, and it's still not displaying anything except for the errors with the token vars in the test script. Here's a new copy of the module code:

package HTML::pageParser;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;
use vars qw($VERSION);

# this creates our class/object
sub new {
    my $proto = shift;
    my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
    my ($sysLoc) = my @orig_args = @_;
    my $self  = {};
    $self->{tokens} = undef;
    $self->{sysLoc} = $sysLoc;
    bless ($self, $class);

    return $self;
} 

# this file reads a text file and loads the contents into an array
sub loadFile($)
{ 
    my $self = shift;
    my ($filename) = @_;
    if(open this, $filename)
    {
        while ($line = <this>)
            { $body .= $line; }
        close this;    
    } else die("cannot open the file:" $filename);

    return($body);
}

# this function parses through the contents of a scalar variable and d
+oes a search/replace on the tokens
# the only thing left to figure out in this function is to eliminate t
+he duplicate matches found 
# before doing the replacing of any tokens. This will be a minor decre
+ase in processor resources. 
sub parseData($)
{
    my $self = shift;
    my ($data) = @_;
    my %tokens = %$self->{tokens};
    foreach my $match($data =~ /\%(\S+?)\%/g)
    {
        if($tokens{$match}) 
            { $data =~ s/%$match%/$tokens{$match}/g; } 
        else 
            { $data =~ s/%$match%//g; }
    }
    
    return($data);
}

# this is a quick way to both load a flat file and parse it's contents
+ for tokens.
sub loadAndParse($)
{
    my $self = shift;
    my ($filename) = @_;
    $data = loadFile($filename);
    $body = parseData($data);
    
    return($body);
}

1;  # so the require or use succeeds
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Here is the code for the tester script.

# this is just a test file to see if my new module is functioning prop
+erly
use HTML::pageParser;
use warnings;

#we need to make sure that we enter the path to our active directory h
+ere
$sysLoc = "E:\\webs\\test\\brandon\\";

#print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

# here are just some test tokens to make sure that this works
$myPage = pageParser->new($sysLoc);

my $myPage->{$tokens{fName}} = "Brandon"; #definite problem here, dunn
+o how to format this
my $myPage->{$tokens{lName}} = "Smith";   #definite problem here, dunn
+o how to format this
$data = $myPage->loadAndParse("parseThis.txt");

print $data
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Thanks!

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