Here's my predicament: I'm trying to read an html template file called 'index.txt'(basically an html page renamed to .txt). It has a value called ***password***. I have a subroutine that generates a random password. I would like another subroutine that reads in the index.txt template, replace ***password*** by calling the randomize password subroutine and assigning the random password and finally writing an 'index.html' file with all of the contents of index.txt, except that the value of ***password*** has been replaced with the randomized password.

This is what I have so far: 

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sub generatePassword
{
  my $length = shift;
  my $possible = 'abcdefghijkmnpqrstuvwxyz23456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUV
+WXYZ';
   while (length($password) < $length)
    {
     $password .= substr($possible, (int(rand(length($possible)))), 1)
+;
    }
}

sub pleaseGodWork
{
 generatePassword(8);
 my $readfile = "index.txt";
 my $writefile = "index.html";
  open (MYFILE, "$readfile") ||  die ("Cannot open $file: $!");
  open (YOURFILE, ">$writefile") || die ("Cannot open $file: $!");
  @copy_this = <MYFILE>;
  print YOURFILE (@copy_this);
}
 close (MYFILE);
 close (YOURFILE);
 pleaseGodWork();
 exit;
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In reply to Read value from file, replace, then write to new file by rycher

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