You could use [CGI]; in shell mode to print out nice HTML as well as help to clean up your code. Another thing you might want to consider is expanding img tags if that's allowed the .plan files (I assume every user has an editable .plan where this is supposed to parse it to HTML- but in that case, why not require them to use HTML and use the HTML::Parser subclasses to restrict what you wish to restrict?)

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