in reply to Prepopulate an HTML option List

Take your pick
print '<li>[id://'."$_]\n" for qw( 23423 33464 54481 65977 78900 166906 80290 );
There is tons of other ways to do it using other modules (and without any), including but definetly not limited to, Template,HTML::Template ... you'll most likely use DBI for the database part.

If the forementioned nodes don't help you out, post some code, and we'll try and see what's up.

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