No, I don't know anything about perl. I know a bit about some other programming languages, but perl seems a little overwhelming. So many modules!

Anyway, on to my problem. I want to write a bit of code that takes a template HTML file and sticks a bit of text from a text file in at a given location. I've been trying to use HTML::template - I've managed to sub variables but I'm having trouble doing files.

I gave up on HTML::template for a while and tried to read each file into a looong scalar and do a search/replace:

template =~ s/TEXTGOESHERE/$textfile/se

I had no luck with either of these, probably due to my total lack of perl-fu. ("Snatch the pebble from your hand master? What pebble?")

If that werent enough, theres more. I have two web servers to work with - one has every perl module known to man, and i use it to test my scripts. Unfortunately the 'production' server has absolutely nothing but barebones perl, and I don't relish the task of convincing the admin to install any modules - the more I ask for the longer it will take (months+) so a solution that uses as few modules as possible would be most appreciated, although anything at all would still be great. Thanks!

In reply to perl fool - inserting text into html doc by cameltrader

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