I'd like to streamline an already simple CGI script using foreach or while and a hash of URL's.

The example below shows what works, as well as how it *doesn't* work when placed inside a CGI.pm HTML table.   I've read TPJ's Coping with Scoping plus perldoc CGI.pm, but am just not getting it.

Direction or sample code greatly appreciated.
    cheers,
    ybiC 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw (fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI::Pretty qw(:all);


my %urlhash = ('Perl Monks' => "http://www.perlmonks.org/",
               'Debian'     => "http://www.debian.org/",
               'OpenBSD'    => "http://openbsd.org/",
           );

print header(-type    => 'text/html',
             -expires => 'now'),
             start_html (-title => 'hash.cgi');


# FOREACH & WHILE SYNTAX WORKS FINE HERE
#print "<p> ==HASH FOREACH==";
#foreach my $key (keys %urlhash) {
#    print "<br>", a({href => "$urlhash{$key}"}, "$key"),
#    }
#print "<p> ==HASH WHILE==";
#while((my $key, my $value) = each(%urlhash)) {
#    print "<br>", a({href => "$urlhash{$key}"}, "$key"),
#    }


print table, (Tr, (td, (
# BUT NEITHER WORKS FROM INSIDE CGI.PM TABLE.
# 'syntax error at line 29, near "foreach"'
    foreach $main::key (keys %urlhash) {
    print "<br>", a({href => "$urlhash{$key}"}, "$key"),
    }
# 'syntax error at line 34, near "while"'
    while(($main::key, $main::value) = each(%urlhash)) {
    print "<br>", a({href => "$urlhash{$key}"}, "$key"),
    }
), ), );            # close td, Tr, table


print end_html;

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In reply to while, foreach inside CGI.pm table by ybiC

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