The problem is that you never reset the read position on the file before you do my @index=<TEMPLATE>. That line reads from TEMPLATE everything after the last read. Try using seek.

seek (TEMPLATE, 0, 0); # reposition to start of file
my @index=<TEMPLATE>;
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As a side note (and possibly to start some interesting discussion), this is one instance where I don't necessarily think using CGI.pm is appropriate. Since you are not using any of the CGI functions except for header(), this is a lot of overhead.

Instead of:

print header;
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Perhaps this:

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
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Of course, if this is just a small subset of your code and you use other functions of CGI.pm, then this is a moot point. Just thought I'd toss that out there...

Cheers,
Ovid

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