Your goal from all this code + HTML seems to be templated HTML, complete with if-logic and loops. I have a feeling that if you just take a glance at HTML::Template, you will quickly realize how much time and agony it can save you. In short, it does simple variable substition as well as, you guessed it, if-logic and loops! If you search the monastery, you'll find just loads of resources, not the least of which is HTML::Template Tutorial.

(Of course, there are other good templating systems out there, but HTML::Template covers exactly the functionality it appears you are looking for, so I think it's the best choice for you)

As your code stands at the moment, you seem to rate a #3 on Cody Pendant's scale of Perl/HTML interaction, which isn't bad. You could certainly do much worse! However, you've stumbled upon one of the main limitations of here-docs. So although I don't really address your original question (the other posts cover that pretty well), I just wanted to save you the trouble of trying to make your own templating system (#4 on the scale), which is a common next step up the ladder, but nearly always given up later in favor of a proven templating system (#5).

blokhead

In reply to Re: foreach and if inside <<ENDHTML? Can they work? by blokhead
in thread foreach and if inside <<ENDHTML? Can they work? by frogboy

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