how to include files in perl:is there anything like <? readfile("b.inc"); ?> in perl

[sugata_bhar]

i have header footer left-column right column in html.Is there anyway to include each in the main template just as php has <? readfile("b.inc"); ?> or <?php include(); ?>.

please help

[FishMonger]

There are many templating approaches in Perl. The easiest to start with is probably the HTML::Template module.

<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="header.tmpl">

main body of the html

<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="footer.tmpl">

http://search.cpan.org/~samtregar/HTML-Template-2.8/Template.pm#TMPL_INCLUDE