I'd do it like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;

print $q->header,
    $q->start_html,
    $q->start_table;
# etc
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Okay, so actually this requires more finger acrobatics, but at least it looks a lot better to me. But then, 'an old version of Perl' might very well mean Perl 4, which doesn't have OO. (But that's before my time, I believe I've just missed my first Perl anniversary ;-)