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

I have the following subroutine: 
# print include files for SSI

sub printIncludes {

 for my $incHandle ( keys %anchors ) {
  for my $status ( keys %{ $anchors{$incHandle} } ) {

 print $incHandle "@{ $anchors{$incHandle}{$status} }\n";

    }
  }
}

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which creates a table like this. I'm stuck trying to modify this sub to print one column for each distinct color(status) found in %anchors.

%anchors gets populated like this: 

# Hash of colors

    my %colors = (
        active  => "#005154",
        failed  => "#ff0000",
        queued  => "#622188",
        partial => "#ffb90f",
        success => "#00ff00"
    );

    # Hash of titles

    my %titles = (
        active  => "Active Jobs",
        failed  => "Failed Jobs",
        queued  => "Queued Jobs",
        partial => "Partially Successful Jobs",
        success => "Successful Jobs"
    );

    $incString =
"<tr><td align=\"center\"><a href=\"\#$class\.$titles{$status}\"><font
+ color=\"$colors{$status}\">$class</a></font></td></tr>";

    push ( @{ $anchors{$incHandle}{$status} }, $incString );

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As per usual, any assistance is greatly appreciated. ~ ~ ~

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Re: Dynamic HTML table Creation
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 15, 2002 at 04:12 UTC

    Something like (untested): 

    # print include files for SSI

sub printIncludes {
    print '<tr>';
    for my $incHandle ( keys %anchors ) {
        my $lastStatus;
        for my $status ( keys %{ $anchors{$incHandle} } ) {
            print $incHandle "@{ $anchors{$incHandle}{$status} }\n";
            print '</tr><tr>'if defined $lastStatus &&  $status ne $la
+stStatus; 
            $lastStatus = $status;
        }
    }
    print '</tr>';
}

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    And remove the <tr></tr> from the anchor strings as: 

    $incString = "<td align=\"center\"><a href=\"\#$class\.$titles{$status
+}\"><font color=\"$colors{$status}\">$class</a></font></td>";

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Re: Dynamic HTML table Creation
by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Aug 15, 2002 at 03:44 UTC

    Could you please post a sample of the data that you're using to build the table? (ie. the stuff that appears in the table you cited.)

    Thanks,


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      It would be a little difficult, since data is gathered from the system itself, rather than flat files, db, etc. I suppose that I could dump one of the main datastructures, if you would like?
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