I realize you're just trying to be helpful, but I can't help but think code handouts like this harm a programmer learning perl in the medium term.

What is a new programmer more likely to do:

Most newer programmers will probably choose the first, lesser productive route (but you know what they say about assumptions).

Just saying. A nudge to use something like HTML::Template with some sample code would probably be more helpful over the long term.

Here's something I whipped up to demonstrate some of what HTML::Template can do.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use HTML::Template;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

print header();

my $template=HTML::Template->new(filehandle=>*DATA,die_on_bad_params=>
+1);

my @count;
foreach(1..10){
    my %hash;
    $hash{NUMBER}=$_;
    push @count,\%hash;
}
$template->param(
                 HEAD_TITLE=>'Test HTML::Template Page',
                 PAGE_TITLE=>'This is a test HTML page.',
                 CONTENT=>'Here is some sample content',
                 COUNT=>\@count
                 );
print $template->output;
__DATA__
<html>
<title><!-- TMPL_VAR HEAD_TITLE ESCAPE=HTML --></title>
</html>
<body>
  <h1><!-- TMPL_VAR PAGE_TITLE ESCAPE=HTML --></h1>
  <p><!-- TMPL_VAR CONTENT ESCAPE=HTML --></p>
<p>I can count!</p>
  <ul>
<!-- TMPL_LOOP COUNT -->
    <li><!-- TMPL_VAR NUMBER --></li>
<!-- /TMPL_LOOP -->
</ul>

</body>
</html>

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In reply to Re^2: Pass the value from perl script to html page by Hero Zzyzzx
in thread Pass the value from perl script to html page by suntech

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