The template advice you got already is best. There is also this- 

    use CGI ":standard";
    print
        div({-class => "quotes"},
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"Nikkei 225:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data4{'^N225', 'net'}),
                ),
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"Hang Seng:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data3{'^HSI', 'net'}),
                ),
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"DAX:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data5{'^GDAXI', 'net'}),
                ),
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"FTSE 100:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data2{'^FTSE', 'net'}),
                ),
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"S&P 500:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data{'^GSPC', 'net'}),
                ),
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"Dow Jones:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data1{'^DJI', 'net'}),
                ),
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"Gold:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data6{'GCQ09.CMX', 'net'}),
                ),
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"Oil:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data7{'CLV09.NYM', 'net'}),
                ),
            div({-class => "row"},
                span({-class => "label"},"US 10 Year Treasury Note:"),
                span({-class => "value"}, $data8{'^TNX', 'net'}),
                ),
            );

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The underlying point either way being: learn some HTML and some CSS (note the classes above). It's quite easy, fun, and resisting it will make spaghetti of your code.

In reply to Re: HTML Formatting of perl code by Your Mother
in thread HTML Formatting of perl code by jdlev

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