I'm hideously new to the CGI module, and I've been trying to *read* through the docs. Not fun.

However, in between reading the docs, I try to slap a little code together, figuring that getting it on my hands will teach me better than getting it on my eyes (at first).

Now, I know how to do something to each instance of an array.

foreach $thing (@thingies) { something($thing) }

And I've seen how to generate a table from the CGI documentation. (And I won't duplicate it here since I'm working with the copied code before I try to write my own.)

The question: You can't interpolate whole subs, right? So if I do a print statement with a foreach inside it, that's not going to work. Should I slap it all into a hash, or is can I print pieces separately and put the table-stuff *around* the foreach, printing each little chunk of the array as three different table elements by passing them into a short, three-element array?

Is all of this going to make for a prohibitively long return time, considering that the array is going to have 1000+ elements?

Should I give up, and go back to my old job at Subway?

(The last is rhetorical. I know I should go back. I just don't want to.)

Apologies in advance for the time this wastes, and here's hoping I have better questions soon enough.

In reply to Yet Another Stupid CGI Question by chaoticset

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