This is, in my opinion, equivalent to putting HTML in your code: 

  $html_output .= $q->start_html(-title=>'petnuch.com',
          -style=>{-src=>'/css/layout.css'}
          );

  $html_output .= banner($self);
  $html_output .= menu($self);
  $html_output .= create_error($self);
  $html_output .= footer($self);
  $html_output .= $q->end_html();

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You can definitely shorten and simplify this code a great deal by using templates instead.

-sam

PS: While you're in the code - write some comments! No wonder you're finding this hard to maintain - it's 4,000 lines of code without a single hint as to what it's trying to do.

In reply to Re^3: Breaking up a CGI::Application program by samtregar
in thread Breaking up a CGI::Application program by debiandude

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