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I use Here docs for anything small and templating systems for anything serious. I won't open up the CGI.pm shouldn't contain HTML generation code debate again (try a search if you're interested).

Update: As for making heredocs look better in your code, indenting really helps:

my $text = "Hello, World!";

print <<"     EOF";

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <p>$text</p>
    </body>
    </html>

     EOF
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Just make sure to quote the proper amount of white space before the EOF marker (also use double quotes unless you don't want variable interpolation).

In reply to Re: How do you deal with HTML in Perl? by cjf
in thread How do you deal with HTML in Perl? by blokhead

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