Using HTML::Template to do this isn't too extreme, though it is definitely not as pretty-looking as CGI.pm's html-generating methods. Chances are I'd still go the templating route, just because I'm now very used to doing so. 

#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w
$|++;

use strict;
use CGI::Simple;
use HTML::Template;

my $cur_month = 'November';

my $count = 0;
my $months = [
  map { [ $count++, $_ ] } qw(
    January February March April May Jun July
    August September October November December
  )
];

my $q = CGI::Simple->new;

my $t = HTML::Template->new(filehandle => *DATA);
$t->param(
  url    => $q->self_url,
  months => [
    map { {
      month_num  => $_->[0],
      month_name => $_->[1],
      selected   => ($cur_month eq $_->[1] ? 'SELECTED' : '')
    } } @$months
  ]
);

print $q->header, $t->output;
exit;

__DATA__
<html>
  <head>
    <title>test</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <form action="<TMPL_VAR NAME="url" ESCAPE="HTML">">
      <select name="month">
      <TMPL_LOOP NAME="months">
        <option
        value="<TMPL_VAR NAME="month_num" ESCAPE="HTML">"
        <TMPL_VAR NAME="selected" ESCAPE="HTML">
        ><TMPL_VAR NAME="month_name" ESCAPE="HTML"></option>
      </TMPL_LOOP>
      </select> <input type="submit" value="Continue" />
    </form>

  </body>

</html>

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In reply to Re^3: Using CGI.pm by Coruscate
in thread Using CGI.pm by Deanimal

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