Hi Monks!
I am trying to insert some simple html files into another html file that I use as a template and I am not having any luck, I am read in the $input_temp and the substitution displays the path and not the content of the files, how could I make this thing work, any help or suggestions would be great!
I included samples of the html files so you can understand what I am trying to do, thanks for looking!

#!/perl/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI qw(-oldstyle_urls :standard);
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser set_message );


print "Content-type: text/html\n\n ";


my $input_temp = "../html/main.html";
my $include1="../includes/header.html";
my $footer1="../includes/footer.html";

open(IN, $input_temp) || print "Can't open input file1: $input_temp\n"
+;

while(<IN>) {

    if ($_ =~ /\<INCLUDE1\>/) { $_ =~ s/\<INCLUDE1\>/$include1/; }
    if ($_ =~ /\<INCLUDE2\>/) { $_ =~ s/\<INCLUDE2\>/$footer1/; }

}

close IN;

__MAIN.HTML__
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<INCLUDE1>
<div class=menu>
...stuff...
</div>
<div class=main>
<!--content-->
</div>
<FOOTER>
</body>
</html>

__HEADER.HTML___
home - about - services - etc


__FOOTER.HTML___
its all about service etc

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