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What you want is a Template Engine. I am very fond of Template Toolkit, but there are many others. Just search CPAN for "template".

What you do is, you write the HTML page and replace the variable parts (where the output of your database query will go) with Template-Toolkit variables and then your CGI-script provide the data to the Template-Toolkit variables and you run the Template engine to combine both and output it to the browser.

If you want to go one step further, explore the power of Web-frameworks such as Dancer or Catalyst where the templates and databases and all other important stuff (authentication, authorisation!) all come seamlessly together.

CountZero

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In reply to Re: Integration of SQL Search Results Into An Existing HTML Template by CountZero
in thread Integration of SQL Search Results Into An Existing HTML Template by Milti

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