Perlseeker_1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I have data in my array like below

Name ID Salary DOB
ABC  01 1000   01-01-1995
ABD  02 2000   01-01-1996
ABE  03 3000   01-01-1994
ABF  04 1000   01-01-1992

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I want to send this information in email
by createing a table and inserting same data

Any inputs on this please

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Re: How can i create an email with table and data in body
by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 26, 2013 at 10:16 UTC

    You can simply send the text by email using MIME::Lite, or create an HTML attachment if you want some other formatting.

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      Hi Monks,

      I used MIME:Lite to send an email with attachment

      but i want the same info to be displayed in table

      format in email body

      Any inputs please

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        Then send it as the message body, assign your content to Data when constructing the message. The documentation provides examples of sending emails, I suggest you try them.

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        Hi there,
        A little FYI: You may want to know that the author of MIME::Lite does not recommend using the module. It is stated in one of the first lines of the documentation on CPAN. I tried to use it before and ended up using MIME::Entity instead..
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Re: How can i create an email with table and data in body
by reisinge (Hermit) on Jun 26, 2013 at 11:29 UTC

    I would use Email::MIME as recommended here and pass the table data via body_str key. You can also format the table data as HTML and add content_type => 'text/html', to attributes (see send_mail subroutine here).

    Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin

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      Do we have any examples perl scripts

      where we can create some tables in email body

      and palce data in those tables and send an email

      I have mutliple rows as my input

      As i am new to this email functionality,any inputs

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        Maybe it helps you tackle your problem better if you divide it into separate steps:

        1. Send a text-only mail (using MIME::Lite)
        2. Generate an HTML page as a file with the information you want (using a templating system)
        3. Use MIME::Lite to send the HTML file as the mail body

        From how I understand your current post, it is not clear to me with which part you have problems.

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