In the following code you have already declared the variables with use vars, therefore you do not need to declare them again with my:

use vars qw($type $expires $css $title $tm $file $mod);


# declare variables
my $type    = 'text/html';              # HTML document type
my $expires = 'now';                    # browser page expiration
my $css   = './ybiC.css';               # Cascading Style Sheet
my $title = 'CGI, CSS and Tables';      # HTML page title
my $tm    = localtime;                  # current host time
my $file  = '/var/www/htdocs/ybiC.cgi'; # this file
my $mod   = ctime(stat($file)-> mtime); # most recent modified time

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So, if I am not mistaken, you can do it like so:

use vars qw($type $expires $css $title $tm $file $mod);


# declare variables
$type    = 'text/html';              # HTML document type
$expires = 'now';                    # browser page expiration
$css   = './ybiC.css';               # Cascading Style Sheet
$title = 'CGI, CSS and Tables';      # HTML page title
$tm    = localtime;                  # current host time
$file  = '/var/www/htdocs/ybiC.cgi'; # this file
$mod   = ctime(stat($file)-> mtime); # most recent modified time

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I am guessing that that may speed things up slightly.

Update to first suggestion: I Benchmarked both ways and found that your way is faster anyway. I guess that I was mistaken.

Also, I don't know the reason for this but I keep getting a "Too late for "-T" option." error when I run it using ActivePerl.

Good luck.

Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com

In reply to (zdog) RE: CGI.pm for CSS, tables, pet tricks by zdog
in thread (code)) CGI.pm - CSS, tables... (deprecated by node 50167) by ybiC

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