This is something I've had on low priority for my own script recently. I did sort of what tilly did but in the messy C-style way with nested for loops. (forgive me please..it was just something to hold over until I got other things done) Problem is that not all entries are the same length, so tabbing doesn't ensure even columns.

I was wondering whether the @<<<<< formatting placeholders might work for this? I skimmed Chapter7 of Programming Perl, but I confess I haven't studied it carefully yet.