Okay, I understand your point about hash of hashes. So,... 
%sample=
(
'login' =>
  {name=>"Login", 
   width=>75, 
   method=> 'textfield', 
   field=>'login',
   size=>'10',
   max=>'8'
  }, etc...
);

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Now, to generate the <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="login" VALUE="" SIZE=10 MAXLENGTH=8> HTML code, I would do that by: 
$q = new CGI;

print $q->$sample{'login'}{'method'}->($sample{'login'}{'field'},
            $sample{'login'}{'size'},
            $sample{'login'}{'max'});

or do I need to do the following:

print $q->$sample{'login'}{'method'}->(-name=>$sample{'login'}{'field'
+},
            -size=>$sample{'login'}{'size'},
            -max=>$sample{'login'}{'max'});

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Ultimately, I want to be able to do something like the following. 
@report = ('last','first','phone','payment');

foreach (@report)
   {
   print qq|<tr><td width="$sample{$_}{'width'}">$sample{$_}{'name'}|;
   print $q->$sample{$_}{'method'}->(-name=>$sample{$_}{'field'},
            -size=>$sample{$_}{'size'},
            -max=>$sample{$_}{'max'});
  print qq|</td></tr>|;
   }

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Filmo the Klown

In reply to Re: Re: Passing scalars to CGI module by filmo
in thread Passing scalars to CGI module by filmo

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