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in thread how to put perl variables inside html tags

Odd... Somewhere along the line you have done something you are not accounting for. At about this point, I would stick the following into the middle of your 'print <<HTML' block: 
print <<HTML
...stuff that's already there
------BEGIN TEST-------
Here is afld3: |$afld[3]|
<a href="mailto:someone@somewhere.com">mail link 1</a>
<a href="mailto:someone@somewhere.com">$afld[3]</a>
<a href="mailto:$afld[3]">mail link 2</a>
<a href="mailto:$afld[3]">$afld[3]</a>  **What we want**
-------END TEST-------
...more stuff that's already there
HTML

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Then run it and look at the html code this prints (not just what shows up visible in the browser) to see what is happening.

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