Hello, I am new to CGI and I am trying to do some web stuff and the one problem that I keep running into is figuring out the proper way to generate the html. For example I want to create some div elements like this:

<div id="div-test">
   <div>Hello</div>
   <div>GoodBye</div>
   <div>Friend</div>
   <div>Adios</div>
   <div>Amigo</div>
</div>
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My Perl code that generated the above:

my @fields = qw(Hello Goodbye Friend Adios Amigo);
print   header,
    start_html( -title => "testme"),
    div (
            { -id => "div-test" },
            # instead of doing this, can i create a div just by loopin
+g
            # through @fields
            div("Hello"),
            div("GoodBye"),
            div("Friend"),
            div("Adios"),
            div("Amigo")
        ),  
    end_html;
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As the Perl Doc suggested, I've been using CGI standard to create my html, but I am not completely familiar with how to use it. I want to insert a foreach loop after my initial div to create a set of divs for each element in the array @fields. But when I do this, it throws a syntax error. I also noticed that I just can't insert a if statement or other Perl operations in a html declaration. How do I do this? If anyone can help, it would be great. Thank you for your time.

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