You will save yourself a lot of work by using a Herepage. You can interpolate variables into them but do not have to \ your ". This save lots of calls to print and makes your code so much easier to read. Here is an example: 

sub unindent; # declare unindent proto at top of code so we can use it
+ as a bareword


sub return_html {
    my %include = %{$_[0]};
    open(FH,"/home/coolsite/www/top.html") || die "couldn't open file 
+$!";
    my @html=<FH>;
    close(FH);
    my %titles  = %{$_[1]};
    my $results;
    foreach my $key (keys %include) {
       if ($include{$key} eq 'yes') {
          $results .= "<li class=bullets><span class=bullets><a href=\
+"$baseurl$key\">$titles{$key}</a></span></li>";
       }
    }
    print unindent <<"    HTML"; # print all the stuff until we find H
+TML on a line by itself
    Content-type: text/html
    
    @html
    <center>
      <h1>Search Results</h1>
    </center>
    RESULTS- In No Particular Order:<p><hr size=7 width=75%><p>
    <ul>
      $results
    </ul>
    </ul>
    <br>
    <hr size=7 width=75%>
    <P>
    <ul>
      <li class=bullets><span class=bullets><a href="$search_url">Back
+ to Search Page</a></span></li>
      <li class=bullets><span class=bullets><a href="$title_url">$titl
+e</a></span></li>
    </ul>
    <hr size=7 width=75%>
    <center>
      This search powered by<br>
      <a href=http://www.mysite.com><img src=../nolalogo.jpg width=318
+ height=74 border=0 alt=\"Got Funk?\"></a>
    </center>
    </body>
    </html>
    HTML
    # herepage ends with token above
}

# this sub strips all leading whitespace
sub unindent {
    s/^[ \t]+//gm for @_;
  @_;
}

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This uses a trick to let you indent your HTML with the sub. The herepage token we use has 4 leading spaces then the letters HTML ie "    HTML" so indents with the HTML. To remove the indentation for efficiency we declare an unindent() sub proto at the top of our code so we can use it as a bareword (effectively like an inbuilt function). This sub strips all the leading whitespace and will reduce the download by 20-50%+ plus depending on how you format your HTML.

PS you have an extra/unmatched </ul> in there which is a little easier to see now too.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Do I need to give a flock? by tachyon
in thread Do I need to give a flock? by jerrygarciuh

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