I'm confused by your question. If you're using the function oriented interface (and you appear to be), instantiating a CGI object is useless. Try this:

use CGI qw/:standard/;

#        vvv note the equals sign
my $html = p($font_o,'---[',
           b('Handle: '),$gbdata->{'handle'},br(),'----[',
           b('Email: '),$gbdata->{'email'},br(),'-----[',
           b('Website: '),$gbdata->{'url'},br(),'------[',
           b('IP: '),remote_host(),':',server_port(),
           br(),'-------[',
           b('Browser: '),user_agent(),br(),'--------[',
           b('Date & Time: '),$time,
           br(),br(),'[',
           b('Message'),']',br(),
           hr(),$gbdata->{'comments'},br(),hr(),'</font>',),
           end_html();

unshift (@contents, $header, $html);
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That's what I think you mean. If you want to know how to assign separate HTML elements to an array, one way to do it is to use CGI::Pretty and split on the newlines.

use strict;
use CGI::Pretty  qw/:standard/;
use Data::Dumper;

my @contents = split /\n/, 
        b('<font face="arial">','---[',
        b('Handle: '),'Ovid',br(),'----[',
        b('Email: '),'ovid@ovidinexile.com',br(),'-----[',
        b('Website: '),'http://www.ovidinexile.com/',br(),'------[',
        b('IP: '),remote_host(),':',server_port(),
        br(),'-------[',
        b('Date & Time: '),scalar localtime,
        br(),br(),'[',
        b('Message'),']',br(),
        hr(),'Comments, anyone?',br(),hr(),'</font>',),
        end_html();

print Dumper \@contents;
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The second answer isn't perfect, but I don't think it was what you were looking for, anyway :)

Cheers,
Ovid

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