Not so much a suggestion as a question arising... Is there any particular reason for using temporary vars as opposed to say 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use HTML::Entities;

my ( $name )  = (param('name')  || '')    =~ /^([[:alpha:][:punct:][:s
+pace:]]+)$/;
my ( $color ) = (param('color') || '')    =~ /^([[:alpha:]]+)$/;
encode_entities( $name );

print header, <<"END_HTML";
<html>
  <head><title>Test page</title></head>
  <body>
    <p>Your name is "$name" and the color you listed was "$color"</p>
  </body>
</html>
END_HTML

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In reply to Re: "Correct" program style questions by BrowserUk
in thread "Correct" program style questions by Ovid

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