well,

This probably won't be as much help as you want, but you'll hear it quite often if you get into perl significantly. Try not to reinvent the wheel when it doesn't need it. There are two major things about your code that i would change (imho):

First of all, you're printing the same things multiple times, if you are absolutely going to be having the same title, print it once at the top of your page and save the if...elsif...else statements for code that will change. This will help simplify where your errors are by breaking up your coding blocks into manageable pieces as well.

Secondly, try looking into CGI.pm (from CPAN) to do the parsing for you. While it is interesting to know what needs to printed on a web page, and is good practice for understanding things, if you don't need to do it, don't. CGI will do most of that for you.

These are just my 2 cents worth, hope it works out,

jynx

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