Hello Perlmonks, I'm in need of some help. I am trying to figure out how to replace a tag in a HTML file with a list pulled from a flat-file db. Here's what I've got so far...the following will open the header.htm file and change any LIST tags with the word My_List. I would like to learn how to open an existing flat-file, which has one entry per line, and display it as a list. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

{
&header;
}

sub header
{
$header="header.htm";

open (HEAD,$header) || die "can't open $header";
$header="";
while (<HEAD>){$header .=$_;}
close(HEAD);

$header=~s/\<LIST\>/My_List/gie;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "$header";
}
1;

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In reply to Replacing a Tag With a List by lisaw

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