that worked, and i reformatted it. is this the way to do it?: 
#!c:/Perl/bin/Perl  -wT
use strict;#force us to pre-declare variables
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header;#header type is text/html

require "c:/progra~1/apache~1/apache/cgi-bin/getmenu.cgi";
& java;

my $value = "Angel";
my $lfilename = "products.pdg";
open (FILE, $lfilename) or &dienice;

my @products;
while ( <FILE> ) 
{
    if ( /^Begin Product (.*)/i ) # We have a product starting line
    {
        my %hash;
        $hash{ 'prodcode' } = $1;  # get the product code.
        $hash{ 'prodname' } = <FILE>;
        $hash{ 'prodprice' } = <FILE>;
        $hash{ 'prodweight' } = <FILE>;
        my $trackinv = <FILE>;
        $hash{ 'tracking' } = ( $trackinv =~ /(Yes|No)/i );
        my $img = <FILE>;
        my($img2,$img1)=split(/\|/, $img); 
        $hash{ 'img1'} = $img1;
        $hash{ 'prodtext' } = <FILE>;
        my $line = <FILE>;
        last if ( $line =~ /End Product/ );
        if ( $line =~ /^\s*Begin Option (.*)$/ ) 
        {
            my $name = $1;
            my @option_list;
            while ( <FILE> ) 
            {
                last if ( /End Option/ );
                push @option_list, $_;
            }
        $hash{ $name } = \@option_list;
        } 
        else 
        {
          #if there is no option, then stick what's in front of the : 
+as the hash name, the rest as it's value
          my ( $name, $value ) = ( $line =~ /^\s*(.*?):(.*)$/ );
          $hash{ $name } = $value;
        }


  push @products, \%hash;
    }
}

print "<HTML>";
print "<TABLE ALIGN\= CENTER>";
print "<TR>";
print "<TD>";

foreach my $ref ( @products ) 
{
    if ($ref->{prodname} =~ ($value))
    { 
        print "<B>";
        print $ref->{prodname};
        print "</B>";
        print "<br>";
        print "<IMG SRC\=\"$ref->{img1}\">";
        print "<br>";
        print $ref->{prodprice};
        print "<br>";
        print "<a href\=\"shopper\.exe\?preadd\=action\&amp\;key\=$ref
+->{prodcode}\">", "Add to Cart", "</a>";
        #print $ref->{prodtext};
        print "<br>";
        print "<hr>";
        }
}
close (FILE);

print "</TD>";
print "</TR>";
print "</TABLE>";
print "<br>";
print "<TABLE>";

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