Thanks a lot for that, particularly for your suggestions about prototyping before using the actual DB, which hadn't occured to me -- always good to separate the specifics from the big picture if you can, and as you say, this kind of thing is what Perl is so good for.

I had considered saving each form as an XML document, but I'm still getting to grips with XML at the moment. Reading it was fine with XML::Simple, but editing and rewriting it not nearly as much fun.

And yes, as you say, these forms are all email forms, I should have made that clearer.

Thanks again.
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