With back-slashing you need to \ the " chars within the string like so (BTW generally you don't need STDOUT as this is the default): 

print STDOUT "<FONT COLOR=\"red\">$data</FONT>";

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The \ lets Perl know you mean a literal " not a " as in the end of the string you are printing. Typically you avoid this problem using heredocs or the qq operator 

# to print a bunch of HTML using a heredoc I would do:
print <<HTML;
<html>
<head>
<title>
  $title
</title>
</head>
<body>
<P><FONT COLOR="red">$data</FONT>
<P>$some_content
<-- continue -->
</body>
</html>
HTML

# or you can do this with qq (non interpolated text must not contain !
+ char)
print qq!
<html>
<head>
<title>
  $title
</title>
</head>
<body>
<P><FONT COLOR="red">$data</FONT>
<P>$some_content
<-- continue -->
</body>
</html>
!;

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"red" is fine but if you want to use hex it is #RRGGBB where #FF0000 is red and #0000FF is blue.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: HTML embedded in perl by tachyon
in thread HTML embedded in perl by Anonymous Monk

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