while calling my one of scripts, which searches a database and throws the informataion on website in html form, for one of the field i want to provide a link like: 
<tr>
      <td width="174" height="36"><b><font color="#0000FF" size="2" fa
+ce="Century Schoolbook">Author's Email Address:</font></b></td>
      <td width="408" height="36">><font face="Times New Roman" size="
+2"><a href="mailto:$afld[3]"></a></font></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>

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the link here ( thru a href is not working, )it does not display the email address at all, i want it to be displayed in the form of html link can some body tell me how to do this ? rt

In reply to how to put perl variables inside html tags by Anonymous Monk

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