Thanks for your reply.

Q: Is there a way to use the variable '$template_file' instead of filename => 'test.tmpl' in the statement below since the file content has been retrieved already? I'm using existing code and it would be a bit more entailed to try to fit that statement 'as is' to that code.

Note: That statement is from CPAN's HTML::Template page.

Do you mean:

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => $template_file);
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?

Yes, see new() docs, use

scalarref => \$template_file
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Thanks Anonymous Monk and cdarke.

From the CPAN HTML::Template page,

my $t = HTML::Template->new( scalarref => $ref_to_template_text, 
                               option => 'value' 
                             );
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Q: What would 'value' be in this case in the following?

my $t = HTML::Template->new( scalarref => $template_file, 
                               option => 'value' 
                             );
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I already added to the template, '<TMPL_VAR NAME=PERLCODE>' per that module.

Q: Should I still use that format for later substitution?

Now, I want to add the Perl print statement mentioned in my initial post.

Q: How would I do that?

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cdarke, what I was thinking of previously was something similar to:

my $template = HTML::Template->new($template_file);

but as shown, Anonymous Monk mentioned new().

Thanks again to you both.