You asked in the CB and castway said she was familiar with something like this. But in any event, you have two ideas, and not much detail about the perl thing you actually want. In any event, two replies:
  1. A dictionary is rather large thing to dump into a page
  2. There are modules to do what would be necessary such as Data::JavaScript/Data::JavaScript

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    I'm not belgian but I play one on TV. On dit que je parle comme un belge aussi.


    In reply to Re: Java script generation module by belg4mit
    in thread Java script generation module by Anonymous Monk

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