#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my @images;

for (1 .. 20) { push @images, "image$_.gif";}

my $x_wide = 6; # user supplied value

my $output = "<table>\n";
my $i = 0;
while ($i < scalar @images) {
	$output .= "<tr>\n";
	for (my $j=0; $j<$x_wide; $j++) {
	    if ($images[$i]) {
	  		$output .= "\t<td><img src='$images[$i]' ....></td>\n";
	    	$i++;
	    }
	 }
	 $output .= "</tr>\n";
}
$output .= "</table>";


print $output;