in reply to using javascript in perl

Since Corion has already given an answer I will just give two pointers: consider reading Ovid's Tutorial and you might want to look at Html::Template or some other Templating system.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use HTML::Template;
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'test.tmpl');
$template->param(TEXT => "Hello World");
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n", $template->output;

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<html>
<body>
<script = "javascript">
alert("<TMPL_VAR NAME=TEXT>");
</script>
<p>There you go a modified version of Corion's script using HTML::Temp
+late.</p>
</body>
</html>

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