Print large text into output file

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Hi
I want to create an HTML page with Perl. The thing is that, when I put the following code inside:

open OUT, ">ResultsTable.html";
print OUT "<html>\n<body>\n";
print OUT "<head>\n";
print OUT <<HEADS 

script type="text/javascript">
function altRows(id){
    if(document.getElementsByTagName){  
        
        var table = document.getElementById(id);  
        var rows = table.getElementsByTagName("tr"); 
         
        for(i = 0; i < rows.length; i++){          
            if(i % 2 == 0){
                rows[i].className = "evenrowcolor";
            }else{
                rows[i].className = "oddrowcolor";
            }      
        }
    }
}
window.onload=function(){
    altRows('alternatecolor');
}
</script>

<style type="text/css">
table.altrowstable {
    font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;
    font-size:11px;
    color:#333333;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color: #a9c6c9;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.altrowstable th {
    border-width: 1px;
    padding: 8px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: #a9c6c9;
}
table.altrowstable td {
    border-width: 1px;
    padding: 8px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-color: #a9c6c9;
}
.oddrowcolor{
    background-color:#d4e3e5;
}
.evenrowcolor{
    background-color:#c3dde0;
}
</style>
HEADS

print OUT "</head></body></html>\n";
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it complains about the last line, something that I haven't "closed" at EOF. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Print large text into output file by daxim (Curate) on Jun 28, 2013 at 14:49 UTC
Statement `print OUT <<HEADS` isn't terminated with a semicolon. Update: Use CSS :nth-child instead of that ghastly Javascript.	[reply]
Re: Print large text into output file by ww (Archbishop) on Jun 28, 2013 at 15:06 UTC
Some browsers may object to the reversal of `<body>` and `<head>`. Here's a shortened version of what you really want in the html, if you want to be close-to-compliant and want some minimal SEO: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http:/ +/www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>some sort of title goes here</title> <meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="This is a page to inform you about.. +.. "> <meta name="KEYWORDS" content="'phrase of more than one word', keyword +, etc... "> <script src="map2open.js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript" +> </script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tos.css"> </head> # head must close BEFORE body begins; not at the + end as in OP Line57 <body> [download] HTH. If you didn't program your executable by toggling in binary, it wasn't really programming!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Print large text into output file by Anonymous Monk on Jun 28, 2013 at 14:50 UTC
`print <<HEAD ; ## MISSING ; HERE`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Print large text into output file by Anonymous Monk on Jun 28, 2013 at 14:51 UTC
Ha, silly me! I was stuck it this for quite some time :) Thanks to both of you!	[reply]