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I have a simple Perl program which produces an HTML file, that I then send via email (using MIME::lite).
My question is, how do I get the contents of my HTML file to be held in memory and passed to sendmail instead of having to write the output to a file first ?
here is the current code 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use DBIx::XHTML_Table;
use MIME::Lite 1.137;


$user="sybuser";
$server=SERVER;
$pass=nopass;

open(DAT,">test.html");
print DAT "<HTML>\n";
print DAT "<BODY>\n";

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:server=$server", $user, $pass,{
                                        PrintError => 0, # Don't print
+ warning messages
                                        RaiseError => 1 } );

my $table = DBIx::XHTML_Table->new($dbh);
       $table->exec_query("
           select srvname from master..sysservers where srvid=0
       ");
       $table->modify(td => {
              style => 'color: black; background: yellow; text-align: 
+center; border: 1',
           });

       print DAT $table->output({ no_head => 1 });

       $table->exec_query("
           select SPID,Login,Application,DBName from monProcess where 
+Login not in (NULL,'probe')
       ");
       $table->modify(table => {
              border => 2,
              width  => '100%',
           });
       $table->modify(th => {
              style => 'color: black; text-align: center; font-weight:
+ bold',
           });
       $table->modify(td => {
              style => 'color: black; background: yellow; text-align: 
+center; border: none',
           });
       print DAT $table->output({ no_head => 0 });

$dbh->disconnect;

       print DAT $table->output({ no_head => 0 });
       print DAT "\n</BODY>\n";
       print DAT "\n</HTML>";

close(DAT);

my $msg  = MIME::Lite->new(From => 'noname@nohost',
                          To      => 'someone@nowhere.com',
                          Subject => 'Report',
                          Type    => 'text/html',
                          Path => 'test.html');

$msg->send;

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I would rather not have to create a temporary html file to do this
e.g. Use MIME::Lite->new(DATA=>'html stuff here'); ?

In reply to HTML file or in-memory ? by Anonymous Monk

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