All I want to do is print 'yeppers' if the output 
from a text file has the word 'cat'.

But I cannot get it to work.  

Here is the code.  Any suggestions would be great.
and why am I doing this on Friday night?

I'm Not Proud

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict

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

print "<html>\n";
print "<body bgcolor=fffbbf>\n";

#this chunk of code out put the input box.  Got me?
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs)
{
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $value =~ s/~!/ ~!/g;
    $value =~ s/\s*$//;
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
#        print "$FORM{$name} = $value<br>\n";
}
#this is the end of the output code. Got me?

$readthis = 'd:/209.35.237.237/perl/regex/work.txt';

open(READTHIS, "< $readthis") or die "I can't open readthis: $!\n";
print (<READTHIS>);
print "<br>\n";
print $value;

print "<p>\n";


#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#this is the code I can not get to work
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


while ($line = <READTHIS>) {
    if ($line =~ /cat/) {
        print "yeppers!";
    }
}
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


print <<EOF;

<form name="textwrite" action="work.pl" method="post">
enter something: <input type="text" name="thisone" size="30">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
EOF

print "<br></body>\n";
print "</html>";

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