Hi Monks!
I have a sample code here to support my question which is about hiding the html that I will need later in my code to send it by email. I would like to hide the html portion of the code because I also need to run this code from the command line. Is there a way to hide the html part of a Perl code, hide it from view, but still process the html code as well and just show the command line format view of it? I hope I made myself clear.
Here is the code sample I mentioned :
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use CGI qw(-oldstyle_urls :standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Date::Calc qw( Add_Delta_Days Decode_Date_US Today );

my $q = new CGI;

my @todays;
   @todays = Today() unless ($ARGV[0] && (@todays = Decode_Date_US( $A
+RGV[0] )));

my $page = "\n\n";
#my $page = "<br><br>";
# yesterday's date
my @yesterday = Add_Delta_Days( @todays, -1 );

my $forms = " %-16s %-22s %-15s %-5s %s\n";
#my $forms = " %-16s %-22s %-15s %-5s %s<br>";

my $t_string = sprintf "%04d-%02d-%02d", @todays;
my $y_string = sprintf "%04d-%02d-%02d", @yesterday;

=code
 $page .= "<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" cell
+padding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">
                <tr>
                  <td width=\"60%\">Date Format Sample:</td>
                  <td width=\"40%\" align=\"left\"><b>$y_string</b></t
+d>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width=\"100%\" colspan=\"2\">&nbsp;</td>
                </tr>
              </table>";
=cut

 $page .= sprintf $forms, "TODAY", "YESTERDAY";
 $page .= " ----------------------------------------------------------
+--------------\n";
 $page .= " ----------$t_string  - $y_string-----------\n";


print $page;

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