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Rather than reinventing the wheel (and guaranteeing that you'll eventually run into a problem), why not just use a template? That's what they were created for. E.g.:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use HTML::Template;
$|++;

my @cities = (
    {   LABEL   =>  "A", CITY   => "Milwaukee" },
    {   LABEL   =>  "B", CITY   => "Milpitas"  },
    {   LABEL   =>  "C", CITY   => "Millston"  },
    {   LABEL   =>  "D", CITY   => "Milbrook"  },
    {   LABEL   =>  "E", CITY   => "Millboro"  }
);

my $t = HTML::Template->new(filehandle => *DATA);
$t->param(CITIES => \@cities);
print $t->output;

__END__
Content-Type: text/html

<html>
<head><title>Cities</title></head>
<body>

<TMPL_LOOP NAME="CITIES">
<p>
   Label: <TMPL_VAR NAME="LABEL"><br>
   City: <TMPL_VAR NAME="CITY">
</p>
</TMPL_LOOP>

</body>
</html>
[download]

Output:

Content-Type: text/html

<html>
<head><title>Cities</title></head>
<body>


<p>
   Label: A<br>
   City: Milwaukee
</p>

<p>
   Label: B<br>
   City: Milpitas
</p>

<p>
   Label: C<br>
   City: Millston
</p>

<p>
   Label: D<br>
   City: Milbrook
</p>

<p>
   Label: E<br>
   City: Millboro
</p>


</body>
</html>
[download]

--
"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about."
-- B. L. Whorf

In reply to Re: search for string append in file by oko1
in thread search for string append in file by Bronston

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