Re: Perl and SSI

Have you come accross:

1. "Here" statements?

#########
print (<< "TIL_YOU_SEE_THIS_ON_ITS_OWN_LINE_WITH_NOTHING_ELSE_ON_THE_LINE")

html stuff
more
more
more
TIL_YOU_SEE_THIS_ON_ITS_OWN_LINE_WITH_NOTHING_ELSE_ON_THE_LINE
##########

2. Print $this_bloody_long_bunch_of_characters;
That is, you can load the variable with the html to print to the browser
away from the print section of your code.

3. To read the contents of a whole file into a variable that you can print
do this:

undef $/;
$this_bloody_long_bunch_of_characters = <MY_FILE>

this kills the characters in the end of record special variable $/ so when
you read from a file with <MY_FILE> it wont stop at \n on that read.


Hope that adds something to your cause ...


> > I have a cgi script for an guestbook. On a couple of the pages that it
> > generates, I am finding it most difficult to get it to write HTML code
that
> > I have added. I'm not sure how to go about this. Can an SSI be placed
into
> > an additional "print" statement in the cgi script; e.g.

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