Hey,

what I'm trying to do is get the start of an HTML file (until it meets ) insert the contents of form.txt, and print the rest of of the html file (from to the end).

Via debugging, I've made sure that I do indeed get the line numbers right with the first part.

The current output gives me the end of the file (after the , and after it, the form.txt content. I just don't understand what's wrong in such small a program.

#!E:/perl/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:all);
use strict;
print header;

my ($startline, $endline);

open (TEMPLATE, "index.shtml") || die "cannot find index.shtml: $!";
while (<TEMPLATE>) {
  $startline = $. if /^\s*<!-- MAIN -->.*$/;
  $endline = $., last if /^\s*<!-- ENDMAIN -->.*$/;
}
$startline--; $endline--;

my @index=<TEMPLATE>;
for (0..$startline) {
  print $index[$_];
}

open (FORMTEMPLATE, 'form.txt') || die "cannot find form.txt: $!";
while (<FORMTEMPLATE>) {
  print;
}

for ($endline..$index[-1]) {
  print $index[$_];
}

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-Nimster

In reply to Mixed-up output by Nimster

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