how do i open an existing html page from a perl script?

[lisa66]

thanks

 

[mbrooks]

Where is the .HTML page located? Via the web? Locally?

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info

 

[lisa66]

The page i want to open is on my server - along with all my other pages including the perl file. I am trying to modify an existing script and have got to:

$FH = "HTML";
$FilePath = "confirmation.htm";
print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

open (FH, $FilePath);
close FH;

but I am obviously doing something wrong ...

 

[mbrooks]

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $file = "/path/to/file.html";

open( FILE, $file ) or die $!;
while ( <FILE> ) {
	print $_ . "\n";     # line by line
}
close(FILE);

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info

 

[mbrooks]

To output the file contents to your browser do

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $file = "/path/to/file.html";

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

open( FILE, $file ) or die $!;
while ( <FILE> ) {
    print $_ . "<br>";     # line by line
}
close(FILE);

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info