> I don't recommend using the HTML generation fuctions of CGI.pm.

Can you please explain why: exactly? Generating HTML with subroutines is powerful, clean, fun. The concept seems to originate with the author of Devel::NYTProf about a year after the web was created. From HTML::AsSubs: 


Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:11:30 +0100
Subject: Wow! I have a large lightbulb above my head!
 
Take a moment to consider these lines:
 
%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );
 
sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }
 
:-)  I *love* Perl 5!  Thankyou Larry and Ilya.
 
Regards,
Tim Bunce.

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In reply to Re^5: How to PRINT CGI html... by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to PRINT CGI html table to a PNG file by theravadamonk

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