Hi slurch901,

Instead of putting the conditional inside the div(...) call, put it immediately afterwards (and start a separate print for the final $cgi->end_html()): 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI;
use CGI ":standard";
use CGI::Carp qw{ fatalsToBrowser };

$index = 0;
$cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header(),
    $cgi->start_html(),
    $cgi->div({-id=>pagewrap});

 if($index==0) {
     print $cgi->p("Hello"),
 }

print $cgi->end_html();

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Notice that the code above has the very useful: 

use CGI::Carp qw{ fatalsToBrowser };

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This will cause many errors to display in the webpage itself, which is how I was able to see the error in my browser: 
syntax error at /var/www/html/index.cgi line 10, near "if"
Execution of /var/www/html/index.cgi aborted due to compilation errors
+.

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say  substr+lc crypt(qw $i3 SI$),4,5

In reply to Re: Conditional statements in CGI/Div by golux
in thread Conditional statements in CGI/Div by slurch901

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