i have a table like this:

rowid   course1   course2   course3  course4
marge   psychology   math   engineering   pe
roy   math   reading   art   cooking
etc.
one of these fields will have lots of text with line breaks.

i have a form.  the form will send a request to a cgi, passing a value which matches a value in "rowid" from the table.  

i need to open the file that contains the table, find the row that matches the value passed by the form, read that row into an array (or hash?) and print it out in html.

i'm able to open the file and put it into an array and print it, but i don't know enough perl yet to take just the row i want and assign labels to each value.