That's sort of what my "... you won't need the terminal newline ..." was referring to.

When you have a quoted string that extends over more than one line, you have embedded newlines - these are the ones you typed at the keyboard (not explicit \n characters).

Your original last two lines:

<td>
<table><tr><td><br>\n";
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are actually:

<td>{embedded newline}
<table><tr><td><br>\n";
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You could have achieved the same output with:

<td>
<table><tr><td><br>
";
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which is actually:

<td>{embedded newline}
<table><tr><td><br>{embedded newline}
";
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Although I used ellipses, what you see on the screen:

<table ...>
...
};
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is actually:

<table ...>{embedded newline}
...{embedded newline}
};
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I hope that explains it. If not, please show an example of exact output.

Hello Ken,
I understand what you are saying now. my mistake was


print $out qq{
<FORM METHOD = post ACTION = $script_url name=login>


<table border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 width=470>
<tr>
<td>
<table><tr><td>Category<br>   } <----My mistake

should of been
print $out qq{
<FORM METHOD = post ACTION = $script_url name=login>


<table border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 width=470>
<tr>
<td>
<table><tr><td>Category<br>  
} <----The fix
it forced a new line so the line below it was not on the 
same line as <table><tr><td>Category<br>
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