Just to add, it isn't working because everything is taken literally in double quotes. So, this means that you have to backslash everything that you want to show up (</tr> should be <\/tr>). There are many other ways to print stuff like that. You can use here documents, qq, q, or just use a similarly long statement something like...:

print "<TR><TD>hi hi hi hi",'</tr></tD>';
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Note that variation of quotes there. This will work as expected and print out the </tr></td> as you expected, without the Perl interpreter's interaction.

UPDATE: I now look at it and think I am wrong. But, I do now that you can always print HTML the right way, with CGI.pm, of course :-). Other than that I do not know what is wrong...

Tiptoeing up to a Perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian