#!c:/xampp/perl/bin/perl.exe use warnings; use CGI; use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday); my $query = CGI->new; my $dir = "C:/Users/41786/OneDrive/Documents/recordz1/"; print $query->header; test(); sub test { open (FILE, "<$dir/test2.html") or die "cannot open file $dir/test2.html"; my $content = ""; my $string .= "<-1->  "; while () { s/\$ARTICLE{'index'}/$string/g; $content .= $_; } print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; print $content; close (FILE); }