I've been tasked with taking some output data from a script and putting it into an html report e-mail for our manager. The first step is to be able to parse from the input file, which will have a format as below: I can do things like remove the date and the lines that say Fault report for x . I'm thinking there must be a way to take in a line to memory and then insert it into an html template in a specific location. I'm just not sure how to do it. The once thing I can't change is the extra line that gets printed after The array is operating normally, that is a function of the reporting tool. 

Thu Dec 13 07:03:01 EST 2007
Fault Reports for RDC:
Fault Report for SA220:
The array is operating normally.

Fault Report for SA221:
The array is operating normally.
Fault Report for SA222:
The array is operating normally.


Fault Reports for TDC:
Fault Report for SA120:
The array is operating normally.

Fault Report for SA121:
The array is operating normally.
Fault Report for SA122:
The array is operating normally.

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I have an HTML template file ready to go. It can be found here:

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/wruehl/www/EMC.html.tt

I want to be able to pipe in the data from the lines in the text file to the corresponding fields in the html template.

Update: I have some code that is used in a similar manner. If F_INFILE is the input from above, how could I do the search and input like it is done here? I'm not very good with regex stuff, so this looks foreign to me: What is being done here? I know it is going through line by line in the source file, but beyond that I'm not sure, is it searching for a line that contains raidExMibVersion and then piping it to the parameter to be passed?: 

open(F_INFILE_3, "< $OUTFILE_3");
open(F_INFILE_8, "< $OUTFILE_8");


$PARAMS{MTIME} = $theTime;
foreach (<F_INFILE_3>) {
    chomp $_;
    $_ =~ s /^\s//g;
    $_ =~ s /\./_/g;
    if ( $_ =~ m/raidExMibVersion/g ) {
        @TEMP_ARRAY_1 = split("=",$_);
        @TEMP_ARRAY_2 = split(":",$TEMP_ARRAY_1[1]);
        $PARAMS{MV} = $TEMP_ARRAY_2[1];
    }

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-Bill

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