with input lines of the form:

unixhelp pts/3 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 10:10 - 10:10 (00:00)
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you could include a number at the end of the split like so:

my @columns = split / /, $row, 10;
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This will tell the split command to split into no more than ten bits, hence the message at the end will not get split and appear in one td cell.

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