Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

The problem: When I dump a file out in a <pre> block, it's come out with a space in front of every line but the first.

The realisation: I used a $cgi->comment() block to throw in some debugging comments in a CGI script, and lo and behold every line but the first had a space in front of it. For some reason, today it reminded me of the $cgi->p() formatting, which will put a space between each argument if it's given a list. I'm guessing this 'join with a space' behaviour is going all the way through the rest of the CGI module routines.

The solution: Write my own <pre> formatter routine, which just prints '<pre>', the text, and '</pre>'. Ugh. There's probably a better way somewhere in CGI, but at least I know what's going wrong.