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skeight has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello All, I'm working on some CGI development in Perl (obviously, heh) and I output _alot_ of html from my perl scripts. I was wondering what the best way to do this is. I can think of the following ways.

1. Use CGI.PM, which I don't have alot of experience with
2. Simply 'print' the html code (ie. print "<table><tr>..")
3. Open html files and print them out

Which of these would yeild the quickest results, if there is a difference at all. When it comes to simply printing the html out does perl take longer to print one long string or many shorter strings.
ie.
print "<table><tr><td>...</td></tr></table>";
OR
print "<table>", "<tr>", "<td>", "...", "</td>", "</tr>", "</table>";

Thanks for your input.

skeight