I am having a new problem with my helpfile, since I obtained a new file it no longer builds my toc on the left like it used to, I was hoping to get some help as to how to figure out why its not working any longer. Near as I can tell there doesn't appear to be anything in the sourefile that would cause it not to parse, here is my TOC loop.. I also pass in the $startpoint and $target in a different subroutine called tHelp (for help tab), also is there any place I can post the help file in case it is the problem? 
 if ($Request->item("Tab")->item() eq "Help")
      {
    my $content = '<leftIndex>';
    if ( $Request->ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")->item() =~ /mlxhelp/
+ )
     {
        my $toc_file = ( $Session->{'usrType'} eq 'Pro' ) ? 'e:\Suppor
+tWeb\Nerfherder\Content\HELP\PRO\TOC.html' : 'e:\SupportWeb\Nerfherde
+r\Content\HELP\STD\TOC.html';
my $user_type = uc $Session->{'usrType'};
$Response->write("Hello the table of content file is $toc_file");
open TOC, $toc_file;
my @toc_lines = <TOC>;
close TOC;
        foreach my $line ( @toc_lines ) { 
            $content .= qq^<rlink tab="Help" script="frames['help_ifra
+me'].location.href='Content/HELP/$user_type/$1'" title="$3">
            </rlink>^ if ( $line =~ /<p class="pTOC1"><a href="(.*?)"\
+s+target="(.*?)">(.*?)<\/a>/ );
        }
        
        $content .= '</leftIndex>';
        
    }

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Here is a piece of sub tHelp. 
sub tHelp
  {   
    my $str = ""; 
$str .= mLeftIndex();
#
# Are we Pro? Then set directory to PRO
# 
#

if ($Session->{'usrType'} eq 'Pro')
{
my $target='MLXchange 4.0 professional_frame';#MLX%20Pro%204.0%20Help_
+frame';
#my $startpoint='Content/HELP/PRO/MLX Pro 4.0 Help-01-1.html';
my $startpoint='Content/HELP/PRO/MLX%20Pro%204.0%20Help-01-1.html';

$str.=shadowBox("MLXchange Help", qq^<help_iframe name="$target" start
+point="$startpoint"/>^ , ($g_docWidth/5*4-(2*$g_docSpace)));
$Response->write(" this is the $target, $startpoint");

return $str;
}

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I see there are "#" sprinkled throughout this file within the code<a href> tags, could this be part of the problem? since its highlighting added code tags

In reply to parsing new help file not producing expected results by grashoper

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