First, please forgive my absence. It's been almost 2 years since my last confession, er... post. As a result of this and not playing with perl in the mean time, I've forgotten a bit.

The question: I have this cgi script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

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


&print_return_page_top;


if (open (FILENAME, "..//..//test//index.html"))
    {
    $line = <FILENAME>;
    while ($line ne "")
        {
        print "$line";
        $line = <FILENAME>;
        }
    }
else {
        print "Booger<br>";
}

&print_return_page_bottom;


##################################
sub print_return_page_top
{
print <<RETURN_PAGE_TOP;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Update Index</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
    Type your changes in the box below and then press Submit:
    <BR>
    <FORM NAME="update-index" ACTION="update-index.cgi" METHOD="get">
      <TEXTAREA ROWS="20" COLS="100" NAME="index-data">

RETURN_PAGE_TOP
}
###################################


##################################
sub print_return_page_bottom
{
print <<RETURN_PAGE_BOTTOM;
      
      </TEXTAREA>
      <BR>
      <INPUT TYPE="Submit" NAME="Submit" VALUE="Submit">
    </FORM>
  </BODY>
</HTML>

RETURN_PAGE_BOTTOM
}
###################################

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Works just as I want it, meaning it takes the html file I'm looking at and dumps it into the textarea. However, I want to grab just a portion of the file I'm reading from. I have <!-- Begin --> and <!-- End --> comments in the file and want to grab the stuff between them. I tried playing around a bit with the above script and these comment lines, but all I got was a blank textarea.

Can someone help me out?

Thanks!

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In reply to file reading issues by mojobozo

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