Sorry, but this is wrong. A leading minus in hash keys is so common that it has been special cased to not be interpreted as a mathematical operation when so used (Im not sure of the exact details of when it is legal). However the same is not true for +, nor is it true for an inline - of which I notice the OP has at least three. 
# inline hyphens will cause problems
D:\Temp>perl -MData::Dumper -e "use strict; print Dumper({-leading_min
+us=>1,+plus=>1,in-line-minus=>1})"
Bareword "in" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1.
Bareword "line" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

# what happened to the plus?
D:\Temp>perl -MData::Dumper -e "use strict; print Dumper({-leading_min
+us=>1,+plus=>1,'in-line-minus'=>1})"
$VAR1 = {
          'in-line-minus' => 1,
          '-leading_minus' => 1,
          'plus' => 1
        };

# this works fine
D:\Temp>perl -MData::Dumper -e "use strict; print Dumper({-leading_min
+us=>1,'+plus'=>1,'in-line-minus'=>1})"
$VAR1 = {
          'in-line-minus' => 1,
          '-leading_minus' => 1,
          '+plus' => 1
        };

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Cheers,

UPDATE:If in doubt use either Text::Quote->quote_key() or qw: 

{qw( 
     -align        CENTER
     -valign       TOP
     -BGCOLOR      blue
     -font-color   yellow
     -FONT-FAMILY  verdana,arial,helvetica
     -FONT-SIZE    12
)}

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In reply to Re: Re: HTML and CGI coding by demerphq
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