You have to use HTML tags when posting messages on PerlMonks; in particular, wrap your code in <code> ..... </code>. If you had a membership and had logged in, you could go back and edit your message; now you have to hope some seniour brother takes pity on your message and corrects it.

The simple solution is to use CGI and use the HTML tag routines there. But I would suggest using one of the template packages---I prefer HTML::Template, and separating the layout of the page from the dynamic content.

Update: Maybe if is a supremely significant term or contraction with CISCO routers, but it's also a keyword in all programming languages. Next year, next month, next week, some unfortunate programmer ( perhaps you ) will be trying to decipher the code. Having an $if inside a for will probably require a second glance to determine the meaning. Is there a different word you can use for that variable name ... and similarly for $if_name, etc?

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