I just happened to have done some module searches a couple days ago in this area and was thinking how nice if there was a thread to post it too.. For some reason I have more trouble with the new (beautiful but catches everything!) search.cpan.org engine.

(I think it would really be useful to have a list of CPAN modules answering domain-specific questions like this one, with people's experiences with them. Or maybe people could take it upon themselves and get added to faq or somewhere?.. Questions. In other words, what is the best way to resolve the problem with many differently named modules, how to find the right one? Plus, how to leverage the jillions of man-hours that have already gone into solving these questions by someone somewhere in the Perl Community? Cpan directory is not up to date/no experience or conversation like Perlmonks has. Ideas welcome. )

Short answer - Text::Table, Text::FormatTable, Data::ShowTable.. then some other quick HTML ones in list below.

Long answer..

Text::Table I think I also remember.. see above. I wanted HTML so didn't follow it up.

Text::FormatTable - text tables

Data::ShowTable - lots of neat things to show tables from databases or subroutines. heavy,text or html

HTML::TableLayout - java-like oo table maker,widgets. old(1998) and docs sometimes wrong it admits, eek!

HTML::STable - simple table, actually really involved, inserting. Anyone with experience about using this module please post. also see: www.oocgi.com/doc_table.pl

HTML::HashTable - quickly print hash as a sorted html table, sounds neat.

HTML::Table - the standard, can do addrow addcol. I've used it in a HTML timesheet system for a 30 person company, about 10 cols by 50 rows and it was nice.

HTML::QuickTable - looks nice, has auto nonnulling, font face, width and other html things. sorts hash by key.
I'm probably going to use this for my current need which is to easily print things out for a management interface to a new search engine module I just made (Eye::Cats, not on CPAN, a directory match thingie much like Yahoo's). Short 'n sweet it says, about to try it today.