Take a look at HTML::Template. It has the potential to make your life much easier. Consider:

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Template qw();

my $tmplStr = <<TMPL;
<tr class='<TMPL_VAR name="className">'>
<TMPL_LOOP name="pictures">    <td onmouseout='showPicture("<TMPL_VAR 
+name="file">",0, "<TMPL_VAR name="path">")'
        onmouseover='showPicture("<TMPL_VAR name="file">",1, "<TMPL_VA
+R name="path">")'
    ><TMPL_VAR name="file"></td>
</TMPL_LOOP></tr>
TMPL

my $tmpl = HTML::Template->new(scalarRef => \$tmplStr);
my @pictures = (
    {file      => 'wibble.jpg', path      => '/here/there/everywhere'}
+,
    {file      => 'wobble.jpg', path      => '/here/there/everywhere'}
+,
    {file      => 'floop.jpg', path      => '/here/there/elsewhere'},
    );
$tmpl->param(
    className => 'pinkAsAnything',
    pictures => \@pictures,
    );

print $tmpl->output();
[download]

Prints:

<tr class='pinkAsAnything'>
    <td onmouseout='showPicture("wibble.jpg",0, "/here/there/everywher
+e")'
        onmouseover='showPicture("wibble.jpg",1, "/here/there/everywhe
+re")'
    >wibble.jpg</td>
    <td onmouseout='showPicture("wobble.jpg",0, "/here/there/everywher
+e")'
        onmouseover='showPicture("wobble.jpg",1, "/here/there/everywhe
+re")'
    >wobble.jpg</td>
    <td onmouseout='showPicture("floop.jpg",0, "/here/there/elsewhere"
+)'
        onmouseover='showPicture("floop.jpg",1, "/here/there/elsewhere
+")'
    >floop.jpg</td>
</tr>
[download]

which isn't the answer you thought you were looking for, but should head you in a useful direction. Note that you can load the template HTML from a file instead of a string so the HTML becomes independent of your script to make maintnance of both clearer and easier.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.