the program is not outputting the contents of the frame.txt file, though it is properly outputting the contents of the file local_frame_left.txt and the file frame_bottom.txt. what could be the reason to this... heres my code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

print "content-type:text/html\n\n";

use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); 
use warnings;


my $step =param(step);

print<<html1;

    <html>

    <head>
    <title>Register online</title>
    </head>

    <body style="background-color:#BC9FAC;">

    <br><br>

html1

    
open(frame,'/home/www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/frame.txt') or die "error 
+is: $!";
while(<frame>)
{
    print "$_\n";
}
close(frame);


print<<html2;
    <br><br>
    <center>
        <div style="margin:0 auto;width:750px;height:420px;">
html2


open(frame_left,'/home/www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org/local_frame_left
+.txt') or die "error is $!";
while(<frame_left>)
{
    print "$_\n";
}
close(frame_left);

print<<html3;
            <div style="width:534px; height:400px;float:right">

                <form method="post" action="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org
+/cgi-bin/local.cgi">            
                    
        

html3


print<<htmlx;
                
                    Give me details for my Area : 
                    <select name="area">
                        <option value='abc'>abc
                        <option value='def'>def
                    </select>
                    <input type="hidden" name="step" value="2">
                    <input type="submit" value="Go">
                </form>
            </div>    
        </div>
    </center>
    
htmlx

open(frame_bottom,'/home/www/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org/frame_bottom.txt');
while(<frame_bottom>)
{
    print"$_\n";
}
close(frame_bottom);

print<<htmlx2;

    </body>

htmlx2

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In reply to why is the content of frame.txt file not displaying by ketaki

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