I'm working on a script that creates some moderately convoluted HTML. Performance is not an issue, but it may become one depending upon how it's deployed. To write the HTML, I just created a "proof of concept" page and wound up just tossing the straight HTML into the script in <<HERE docs. I'm using CGI.pm for everything else, but I've thought about using the CGI module's methods for creating HTML.

My question: what issues are involved with this? It seems to me that having CGI.pm create the HTML instead of using <<HERE docs is going to be slower. I haven't benchmarked anything yet, but I just wanted to ask other Monks their opinion of this use of this module regarding performance, maintainability, or other issues.

Cheers,
Ovid

In reply to HTML with CGI.pm by Ovid

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