This is a way you could do it using Template Toolkit. Using a template system allows you to keep the HTML out of your code and will also handle writing the new files for you: 
use Template;
my $template = Template->new;
my $tmpl = 'table.tmpl';

my %names;
while ( my $line = <DATA> ) {
    chomp $line;
    my ($name,$item,$answer) = ($line =~ m/^(\w+)\s+(\w+)\s*-\s*(.*)/)
+;
    push( @{ $names{$name} }, { item=>$item, answer=>$answer } );
}
for my $name ( keys %names ) {
    my $table = { title=>$name, rows=>$names{$name} };
    $template->process( $tmpl, $table, "$name.html" )
        || die $template->error();
}

__DATA__
Filename1 Item1 - Answer
Filename1 Item2 - Answer
Filename2 Item1 - Answer
Filename2 Item2 - Answer

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This will create two new files "Filename1.html" and "Filename2.html".

The content part of the template file "table.tmpl" would look like this: 
<h1>[% title %]</h1>

<table>
[% FOREACH row IN rows %]
    <tr>
        <td>[% row.item %]</td>
        <td>[% row.answer %]</td>
    </tr>
[% END %]
</table>

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Obviously, you need to add the html and body tags around this, and you can also add CSS and other static elements.

In reply to Re: How to ignore and retrieve certain values from text file which is to be split into multiple HTML files with tables? by tangent
in thread How to ignore and retrieve certain values from text file which is to be split into multiple HTML files with tables? by perly_white

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