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Reading HTML from a file with Perl

Zippy
New User

Aug 7, 2002, 1:28 AM

Post #1 of 4 (292 views)

Reading HTML from a file with Perl	Can't Post

Im attempting to write some CGI that will (obviously) output some HTML to the screen. At the top and the bottom of this output, I want my company's header and footer pages that are included on all pages. I've tried to get these included in a couple of different ways:

1) open(HEADER,"header.htm");
while(<HEADER>) {
print $_
}

2) print <<END;

END

I can't get any of the HTML in the file outputted. If you can see whats going wrong, ill be very glad of some assistance :)

Cheers. Smile

Paul
Enthusiast

Aug 7, 2002, 2:24 AM

Post #2 of 4 (291 views)

Re: [Zippy] Reading HTML from a file with Perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

Well firstly you can throw example 2 out of the window Smile

....you cannot use SSI in cgi generated html.

Example one should work fine, just use some error checking...

Code

open FH, "header.htm" or die "Can't open header.html: $!"; 
print while (<FH>); 
close FH;

Zippy
New User

Aug 7, 2002, 2:36 AM

Post #3 of 4 (288 views)

Re: [RedRum] Reading HTML from a file with Perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

I've been looking at using a package called HTML::PullParser to extract the data from the file. Is this needed? Or am I completely barking up the wrong tree looking at that?

Paul
Enthusiast

Aug 7, 2002, 3:33 AM

Post #4 of 4 (281 views)

Re: [Zippy] Reading HTML from a file with Perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

It depends what you want to do...just printing the whole file can be done as shown above.

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