You're question is not clear to me at all I'm afraid. Some other monks may be able to understand better or know the right questions to ask, but maybe try to explain further?

In the mean time, a simple stylistic suggestion is to use q and qq for single and double quoted strings respectively, especially when working with html that contains either.

$page .= qq{<table width="100%" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpaddi
+ng="0" cellspacing="0">
                <tr>
                  <td width="60%">Date Format Sample:</td>
                  <td width="40%" align="left"><b>$y_string</b></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td width="100%" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
                </tr>
              </table>};

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-Miller

In reply to Re: Report Format Help! by wind
in thread Report Format Help! by Anonymous Monk

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