I am a newbie teaching myself, please be patient!

I have a flat file DB that I am accessing through the query string eg. 'offers.cgi?Category&Subcategory' or in the case of getting a list of the subcategories within a category: offers.cgi?Category - This is working fine. I have a hash with the subcats in and the number of offers in each subcat (the flat file is pipe delimited and the fields are cat|subcat|company|add1|add2 etc.)

I am outputting the list of subcats with the number of offers in brackets.
The problem I am having is really a perl/HTML formatting problem I think. I want to be able to display the subcats 3 per table row as in:


<TR>
<TD>1st subcat</TD>
<TD>2nd subcat</TD>
<TD>3rd subcat</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
<TD>4th subcat</TD>
<TD>5th subcat</TD>
<TD>6th subcat</TD>
</TR>

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etc. can any1 help me on this??
I can supply more code, so you know what I am doing with the rest of the script.
Thanks in advance.

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