jim, just out of curiosity, in my hypothetical webpage: <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>Bulletin Board</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <PRE> `cat /www/pcgm/bulletins` </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>
where would the perl code go? (i am a total newbie in dynamic webpage content). sorry if this question is painful, but i honestly don't know. :) pete > Hi Pete, > > Don't know PHP but Perl could do it: > > # ----- > #!/perl/bin/perl.exe -w > use strict; > use File::Slurp; > > my $file = 'template.txt'; > my $mid = ' > <PRE> > `cat /www/pcgm/bulletins` > </PRE> > '; > > my $template = read_file( $file ); > $template =~ s/<body>.*<\/body>/<body>$mid<\/body>/is; > > print $template; _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
