I was creating a table of URI encodings of ASCII characters as an appendix for my CGI course. Naturally, I figured that rather than create the table by hand, I'd write a script to do it, but I encountered an odd problem. Here's my code:

#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use URI::Escape;
use CGI qw/:no_debug/;

my $q       = CGI->new();
my $file    = "encodeTable.html";
my $outdata = "";

open OUT, ">$file" or die "Cannot open $file: $!\n";
for ( 0 .. 255 ) {
     my $char    = chr( $_ );
     my $escaped = uri_escape( $char );
     unless ( $escaped ne '%20' ) { $escaped .= ' or +' };
     $outdata .= $q->Tr( 
                         $q->td( { -align => 'right' },
                                 [ $_ < 33 ? '&nbsp;' : $char, $_ , $e
+scaped ] 
                               ) 
                       );
}
print OUT $q->start_html( -title => "Uri Character Codes",
                          -style => { src => '../style.css' },
                          -author=> 'poec@yahoo.com' ),
          $q->table( { -border => 1 },
                     $q->Tr ( $q->th( [ 'Symbol', 'ASCII Value', 'URI 
+encoded' ] ) ),
                     $outdata ),
          $q->end_html;
close OUT;
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Now the above code works just fine. Unfortunately, all of the HTML runs together in one big line (which is fine if I'm conserving bandwidth). However, I decided to change the use CGI qw/:no_debug/; line to use CGI::Pretty qw/:no_debug/; and discovered that with this one simple change, the <TD ALIGN="right"> and the <TABLE BORDER="1"> tags have their attributes stripped, thus changing the appearance of the table. Searching through the POD has proved fruitless. Does CGI::Pretty strip attributes deliberately? Is this a known bug?

I'm using CGI.pm version 2.74 and CGI::Pretty version 1.04. Both of these appear to be the most up-to-date versions. If I am missing something, please let me know!

Cheers,
Ovid

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