Hi

I am trying to format the content of an array into a table. The input contains rows of data and each of them seperated by a space or a tab (As below). However, i want the table to have 4 columns but input data has one element which needs to be treated as a single value.

For ex, in the below table: 
'cOne cTwo   cThree 13 sec  cFour           
cOne cTwo   cThree 11 sec  cFour 
cOne cTwo   cThree 1 min 2 sec  cFour 
cOne cTwo   cThree 13 sec  cFour';

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should be printed as: 
ColumnA    ColumnB   ColumnC      ColumnD
cOne       cTwo      13 sec       cFour
cOne       cTwo      11 sec       cFour             
cOne       cTwo      1 min 2 sec  cFour

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the entries with say "13 sec" or "1 min 13 sec" should be in one column. Heres the code I tried but its terribly naive. Could someone help me... thanks 

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Table;
my $table = new HTML::Table(-border=>0.2,
 -bgcolor=>'#F4F5F7',
 -head=> ['ColumnA','ColumnB','ColumnC', 'ColumnD']);                 
+                             

my @wtodays=
'cOne cTwo   cThree 13 sec  cFour           
cOne cTwo   cThree 11 sec  cFour 
cOne cTwo   cThree 1 min 2 sec  cFour 
cOne cTwo   cThree 13 sec  cFour'; 
 
for ( @wtodays )
{
$table->addRow(split(/\s+/, "$_\n"));
}

print $table;

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In reply to Regex for non-patterned input by sidsinha

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