Nothing dumb about this. Just inexperience.

Frankly, though, you have hit one of my great pet peeves. Embedding printing (ie. heredocs, html, forms) in the perl only leads to serious maintenance issues. Good job security, but bad style.

At the very least, look into using CGI.pm; however, I recommend that you use a module specific to template processsing. I prefer Template Toolkit but there are several of them. If you are not familiar with what templates are, its a good time learn. You won't regret it.

(Plus, don't you just hate having to escape all the quotes. Use qq(foo) instead.))

I admit it, I am Paco.

In reply to Re: Just plain dumb by jonjacobmoon
in thread Loop counter only works for 2 by rendler

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