This:

my @LINES;

while (<DATA>)
{
    chomp;
    push @LINES, $_;
}

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...is equivalent to this:

chomp (my @lines = <DATA>);

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Who knows how that works, but it does. It's a perl idiom you need to know.

As for this: 
my $split;

for (@LINES)
{    my @row = split ('&', $_);

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The only variable name you could think of, $split, is the same name as the perl function split() ? Don't ever do that. If you can't think up 10 unique variable names, you cannot be a computer programmer. Also, your variable names need to be descriptive. "Hey, Joe! I've got an array ref named '$split'. Guess what's in the array? Joe: Gold coins?"

Avoid writing $_ in your code. I suggest you read "Learning Perl 6th ed.". You need to learn modern perl.

In reply to Re: Using HTML Template to fill a 2-dimensional table by 7stud
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