One should probably be wary of tutorial sites which:

• use the incorrect "PERL" rather than "Perl"
• don't grant any reuse of their code snippets (it's not even a restrictive "you can use this as long as you credit us", it's a flat out "you can't reproduce our code" period)
• seem to think that hashes may be made sorted (hashes (vanilla, not tied) are by definition unordered; LISTS of keys or values may be sorted . . .)
• has an example using variable interpolation where they apparently meant to show +-as-concatenation operator (last code sample)

"whileL.pl" 24 lines, 404 characters

I second cbu's comment: very unhelpful! If your example program is aimed at beginners, then even more unhelpful in spreading bad programming habits. In addition to what the other poster wrote, since we recommend people all the time not to try to reinvent the wheel risking to do so wrongly and to use CGI instead, you may want to do so. Even for such a tiny thing.

Since your code has already been rewritten in a better way, I'll comment on the title, which is also particularly unhelpful - "Simple Perl programme using":

• bad spelling: it's "program", not "programme";
• not only it's not a well formed English phrase at all, but one can not even guess what it is about;
• CGI is not mentioned at all, but it's in fact what it is about, so it supports the Perl eq CGI pov.

As far as the first two points are concerned, I understand that English may not be your mother tongue: neither is it mine, but special care should be applied at least when composing titles, if not all the rest. As for the second, that pov is often associated with stuff that gives Perl a bad name so it is generally deprecated amongst Perl programmers: granted, it's better tolerated here than elsewhere, but it is still wrong.

I don't disagree, but I thought I'd be pedantic...

bad spelling: it's "program", not "programme"

Depends which English you use :), but I concede that in the UK program is generally accepted for computing and programme is used for everything else, like TV.

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I would say unhelpful, as it not even uses use strict, and your html quoting style uses ' instead of ", which is wrong.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

# SET UP AN HTML TABLE
print qq{<table border="1">\n};

# COUNTER - COUNTS EACH ROW
my $count = 1;

foreach my $name (qw( Steve Bill Connor Bradley )) {
    print "  <tr><td>", $count++, "</td>\n",
          "    <td>$name</td>\n",
          "    </tr>\n";
    }
print "  </table>\n";
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Is both more consice and more perlish

I think single quotes for html attributes are quite right.

You're right, for HTML 4.01. I'm more strict to myself, and was referring to XHTML™ 1.0 - 4.4. Attribute values must always be quoted


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn