Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but seems like you have multiple rows of stuff you want to display. How 'bout this:

  my $table = "<table>";
  foreach my $row_of_stuff (@rows_of_stuff) {
     $table .= <<EOT;
<tr>
   <td>$row_of_stuff</td>
</tr>
EOT
  }
  $table .= "</table>";
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Does this help?