title: Perl script hyperlinks not getting displayed in browser
body: <p>I've a perl script which displays a table with hyperlinks on a browser. When i use,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt; a href="http://www.xyz.com"&gt;7231-R&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm able to get the hyperlink-ed "7231-R" text displayed on the browser and thereby when i click on 7213-R it takes me to the desired page. 
  But for the other link in the table on webpage, i'm using if else condition in the perl script and assigning hyperlink to a variable as below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if($astatus eq "PASS" &amp;&amp; $kstatus eq "PASS"){
            $value = "&lt; a href=\"http://www.xyz.com\"&gt;7231-R&lt;/a&gt;";}
  elsif($astatus eq "FAIL" || $kstatus eq "FAIL"){
            $value = "NA";}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, i'm displaying $value in the other column of the table. Here, i should also be getting a 7231-R with hyperlink if the if condition is true, but i'm only getting the text 7231-R without the hyperlink.
  What could be the problem? Kindly help.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,
  Sharath </p>