I my day of true foolishness, I wrote the following script to process existing HTML files.

#HTML Document Parsing Library (Version: .011)
#By Andrew Kenton Mitchell, SSE (Andrew@AndrewKMitchell.com)
#Created: February 26, 2001
#Last Modified: February 27, 2001 15:13 Eastern Time
#
#This library will read an existing HTML document and replace most sca
+lars with the correct values.

sub DisplayHTML() {
    $HTMLFileName = @_[0];
    open(HTMLFNH,"<$HTMLFileName") || die "ERROR: Can't open $HTMLFile
+Name: $!";
    print "Content-type:  text/html\n\n";
    while ($HTMLLine=<HTMLFNH>) {
    chomp $HTMLLine;
        $HTMLLine =~ s/(\$[\w\[\]{}']+)/'"'.$1.'"'/gee; #Allows printi
+ng of variable content.
        print "$HTMLLine\n";
    }
    close(HTMLFNH);
}

sub DisplayHTMLOnly() {
    $HTMLFileName = @_[0];
    open(HTMLFNH,"<$HTMLFileName") || die "ERROR: Can't open $HTMLFile
+Name: $!";
    while ($HTMLLine=<HTMLFNH>) {
    chomp $HTMLLine;
        $HTMLLine =~ s/(\$[\w\[\]{}']+)/'"'.$1.'"'/gee; #Allows printi
+ng of variable content.
        print "$HTMLLine\n";
    }
    close(HTMLFNH);
}

return 1;

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Now, I been requested to make the script handle an SSI directives similar to:

#exec cmd="perl /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/toolbar.cgi fastship"

Though I have suggested many times, I be allowed to take the script out, the powers at be refuse.

My fellow monks, I need your help. What is the easiest/best way to accomplish my goal? How can I make my code process an SSI like above?

Thanks,

akm2

In reply to SSI problem by akm2

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