Before you spend too much time hard-coding HTML in your program, I would strongly urge you to use the HTML::Template module. You would still use CGI.pm, of course, since that would handle all of the CGI-specific stuff, but virtually all of your HTML would go into external template files, which you (or a non-Perl web person) could easily modify with having to munge up your Perl code.

A simple template file might be:

<html>
<head>    
<title><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME='TITLE' --></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><!-- TMPL_VAR NAME='HEADING' --></h1>
<ul>
    <TMPL_LOOP NAME='LISTOFSTUFF'>
    <li><TMPL_VAR NAME='SOMETEXT'></li>
    </TMPL_LOOP>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

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You would then just have your Perl program supply the values of the variables. (The HTML::Template docs would supply the details. It's really very easy.) Separating your Perl code from your HTML code will save you LOTS of grief in the future.

In reply to Re: Printing with CGI.pm by Wally Hartshorn
in thread Printing with CGI.pm by cal

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