SuicideJunkie and ikegami have provided answers to your nominal question but even with their corrections, I'm not quite sure why your test script produces any content renderable in the browser, since it lacks several elements required by html standards, notably <html>, <head>, <title>, </title>,</head> and <body>:

The CGI.pm doc (available on your local machine at perldoc CGI.pm) provides a simple example of (one way) to do so (and throws in a recommended-but-not-required DTD for free):

use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header,
start_html('A Simple Example'),
...

which will provide, for rendering:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
<head>
<title>A Simple Example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+" />
</head>
<body>

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Note that the print header, took care of the required Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1-followed-by-two-newlines. Since you didn't use print header your manual print of the Content-Type is NOT redundant (if interested in the issue, you can read numerous nodes here where the problem was coding in such a way as to emit Content-Type... twice).

If you chose to avoid print header, you MUST supply the <html>, <head>, <title>, title-content, </title>, </head><c> and <c><body>. (IMO, the best reason to eschew print header,... is to allow you to select another DTD and add additional meta data.)

Update: edited html to fix cut'n'paste error which doubled "<!DOCTYPE html" - thanks ikegami!

In reply to Re: Arrays with CGI perl help (More fundamental issues) by ww
in thread Arrays with CGI perl help by perlnewb123

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