in reply to Printing with CGI.pm

Before you spend too much time hard-coding HTML in your program, I would strongly urge you to use the HTML::Template module. You would still use CGI.pm, of course, since that would handle all of the CGI-specific stuff, but virtually all of your HTML would go into external template files, which you (or a non-Perl web person) could easily modify with having to munge up your Perl code.

A simple template file might be:

<html>
<head>    
<title><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME='TITLE' --></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME='HEADING' --></h1>
<ul>
    <TMPL_LOOP NAME='LISTOFSTUFF'>
    <li><TMPL_VAR NAME='SOMETEXT'></li>
    </TMPL_LOOP>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

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You would then just have your Perl program supply the values of the variables. (The HTML::Template docs would supply the details. It's really very easy.) Separating your Perl code from your HTML code will save you LOTS of grief in the future.

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