Simply use $myHTML = $template->output();

I tried this:

   my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename =>   $prepage,
                                                        die_on_bad_par
+ams => 0);                                        
         $template->param(Option_3 => $Option_3);
         $template->param(Option_4 => $Option_4);
         $template->param(Option_5 => $Option_5);
        $template->output();
   print "$template";
        exit;
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But it results in a blank screen. what have I misunderstood??

Thanks

Update: Doh! got it!

my $html = $template->output();
        print "$html";
        exit;
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Thanks all for your help...

Or just:

print $template->output();

if you're not doing anything with $html other than printing it. But yup, you've got it!

Cheers,

Brent


-- Yeah, I'm a Delt.

$template is an object. Unless it has an explicit stringification overload printing it is unlikely to do what you might hope for. Try my $str = $template->output (); print $str; instead.

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Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

I'm assuming you have a block somewhat like the following?

# ouch
open(my $fh, '>', 'data.tmp') or die("open failed: $!");
$template->output(print_to => $fh);
close($fh);

open(my $fh, '<', 'data.tmp') or die("open failed: $!");
chomp( my @template_txt = <$fh> );
close($fh);
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Or maybe you're doing more harm than that even?

# major ouch
open(my $fh, '>', 'data.tmp') or die("open failed: $!");
print $fh $template->output();
close($fh);

open(my $fh, '<', 'data.tmp') or die("open failed: $!");
chomp( my @template_txt = <$fh> );
close($fh);
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Either way, the output() method without the 'print_to' parameter will return the template text as a scalar. If you want each line of the template text to be its own array entry (or all in one scalar), you'd want this:

# one line per array entry, no ouch
my @template_txt = split( /\n/, $template->output() );

# all in one scalar, no ouch
my $template_txt = $template->output();
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update: minor updates to the original 'ouch' possibilities, in order to include the reading of file to array.

Some context on how you are writing to the file would help, but without that all I can really say is that $template->output() should return the filled template.