You want to pre-populate these input fields with data from the web server side. The previous poster gave you a pointer to a way to read the data from an excel file. You might also save yourself some trouble and save the file as text formated as .csv or tab seperated data. In that case you can have perl easily read the file and parse the data into variables.

Pre-populating an HTML for can be done using HTML::FillInForm. The code can be as simple as:

... code to read in or create your $page 

... code to read in your excel data and format into a hashref called $
+dbrecord

   # fill in the user input forms with dbrecord data
   use HTML::FillInForm;
   my $fif = new HTML::FillInForm;
   my $out_page = $fif->fill( scalarref => \$page, fdat => $dbrecord);
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