Rather than convert all your HTML to CGI.pm, you may want to look at using the Template Toolkit (my favourite) or HTML::Template (also very popular) for the display portion of your script. This'll keep the processing and the presentation separate, and make your script much easier to write and maintain. Good luck!
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