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Milti has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've figured out a way to insert the results of an SQL search into an HTML page more or less on the fly. However at the point the SQL search results are inserted I need to be able to indent the data. So far I haven't come up with a way to do that. Here's the code I'm using. I have comments where the indent needs to start and end.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DBI; use CGI qw(:standard); my ($dbh, $sth, $count); $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:members','root','password') or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n"; $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT LastName, FirstName, City, State, Countr +y, Email FROM people"); $sth->execute (); print header(), start_html; print <<"(END Page Header HTML)"; <html> <head> <title>Page Header</title> </head> <center> <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-coll +apse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td>Some Text</td></tr> </table> </body> </html> </center> (END Page Header HTML) #### Now I want to indent 5 spaces or app 20 pix print "<br><br><p align=\"left\"><font size=\"5\"><b><u>Your Search Re +sults</u></b></font>"; $count = 0; while (my @val = $sth->fetchrow_array ()) { print p (sprintf ("<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"4\">Last Name = +%s<br><font size=\"4\">First Name = %s<br><p align=\"left\"><font siz +e=\"4\">City = %s<br><font size=\"4\">State = %s<br><font size=\"4\">Country = %s<br> +<font size=\"4\">Email = %s</font>\n", $val[0], $val[1], $val[2], $val[3], $val[4], $val[5])); ++$count; } print p ("<p align=\"left\">$count Total Members"),end_html (); ##### Now I want to stop the indent! print <<"(END FOOTER HTML)"; <html> <head> <title>FOOTER</title> </head> <center> <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0"> <div align="center"> <center> <table width="100%> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="left"> <form><input type="button" value="BACK TO SEARCH" onClick="histo +ry.back();"></p></p></form></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://www.domain/images/blk.gif" height="1" width="10 +0%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <table width="100% cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><p align="cent +er"><font size="1" face="Arial"> <br> © My Company<br> All Rights Reserved<br></font></td> </tr></table> (END FOOTER HTML) $sth->finish (); $dbh->disconnect (); exit (0);

Can anyone tell me what I need to do go indent the search results? Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Milt Spain