How to include files in perl?

sbhar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: How to include files in perl? by davorg (Chancellor) on Mar 02, 2006 at 12:53 UTC
Perl's equivalents of "include" are use, require and do. However, all of those methods expect the file that you're including to be Perl code, not HTML. So I think that perhaps you want to just open the files and read the contents. Or maybe you should be looking at Server Side Includes or a decent Templating system. -- <http://dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re: How to include files in perl? by davidrw (Prior) on Mar 02, 2006 at 14:41 UTC
The Tutorials section answers that exact question in Including files w/several different methods (including modules, `do`, `eval`). See also last week's Using php like includes in perl script?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to include files in perl? by izut (Chaplain) on Mar 02, 2006 at 12:52 UTC
You can use the `do` function. Please check `perldoc -f do` for more. Igor 'izut' Sutton your code, your rules.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to include files in perl? by ambrus (Abbot) on Mar 02, 2006 at 14:33 UTC
Read this great tutorial: Including files.	[reply]
Re: How to include files in perl? by gube (Parson) on Mar 02, 2006 at 14:23 UTC
Hi sbhar, In perl, you can read the content of the file and can print in the html page. Like the sample code above given by perlsen. And also, there is a module HTML::Template you can refer the link. There is a function 'TMPL_INCLUDE' using that you can include the files. It's very simple and effective module for the usage of htmls.	[reply]
Re: How to include files in perl? by perlsen (Chaplain) on Mar 02, 2006 at 14:01 UTC
Hi, Try this, `undef $/; open (FILE,"/path/to/header.html"); my $file = <FILE>; close(FILE); print "$file";` [download] Or Just Try for this links: PHP include Modules Include Virtual Files Regards, Perlsen	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How to include files in perl? by wee (Scribe) on Dec 04, 2008 at 17:55 UTC
Using open without die is like making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanut butter. You might not get what you expect.	[reply]