in reply to Conditional color formatting ---- HTML

> $ret .=  <div style="background-color: orange">$line</div>\n;

HTML is not Perl, you have to doublequote the string.

qq{..} would work right away, ".." would require changing the inner quotes to single ones ( " -> ')

Cheers Rolf
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