Beware that Perl runs on the server, and JavaScript runs on the client.

Paul

[Moderator's note: I think the original question was more to do with
 a feature available in Perl that may or may not have an equivalent
 in JavaScript...]

JonGrman21@a... wrote:

> If anyone knows perl..in perl u can open an html file and read in its
> contents placing the contents into a variable.  I was wondering if i could
> do that in javascript and if so how?