use HTML::Template; my @data = ( [ qw/a0 a1 a2 a3 a4 a5/ ], [ qw/b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5/ ], [ qw/c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5/ ], [ qw/d0 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5/ ] ); my @col_name = qw/ col0 col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 /; my @selection = (1, 4, 5); my $tmpl = HTML::Template->new( filehandle => \*DATA ); my @headers = map {{ title => $_ }} @col_name[ @selection ]; my @rows = map {{ cols => [ map {{ data => $_ }} @$_[ @selection ] ] }} @data; $tmpl->param( headers => \@headers, rows => \@rows ); print $tmpl->output; __DATA__