Well, it's not that this doesn't work. As with most of perl, TIMTOWTDI. But I was more advocating mixing here-docs with CGI's functions, (as opposed to mixing CGI.pm with here-docs)

I've lately becoming less enthralled with here-docs due to how they ususally mess up the formating (both of what you put in and what your editor puts in) of a perl script. Plus, this appears to be one of the few points in perl where extra whitespace can screw you up. I've had several bad experiences with here-docs as to avoid using them myself and to try to get others to do so as well.

It's probably better to use either CGI.pm functions completely, or at least get the header and other page information out with CGI and then jump to a template solution for the rest of the HTML body. Both methods will produce much nicer and easier-to-read code than using here-docs.

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