OK I think I understand it a little better now...and yes what I mentioned will work if you open the file at the beginning of the code, and close it before it ends. I think what you are referring to when you say predeclaring print statements is using the 'select' function. This prevents you from having to specify on every print line the filehandle you wish to output to. If you decide to choose that you can do something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
open(HTMLFILE, ">your/html/file.here");
select(HTMLFILE);
#....do some things with CGI input here
print "This goes in your HTML file\n";
#....do some other things if necessary
print "So does this\n";
close HTMLFILE;
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Your alternative is not to use the select statement...which would look like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
open(HTMLFILE, ">your/html/file.here");
#....do some things with CGI input here
print HTMLFILE "This goes in your HTML file\n";
#....do some other things if necessary
print HTMLFILE "So does this\n";
close HTMLFILE;
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