Mes freres,
The subs bellow are from an Excel parsing script which displays the data in a variety of ways. One display set is a series of 8 tables which have similar columns but vary arbitrarily as to how many cells in a row have data. I am wondering if someone sees a more elegant solution. The code is already in production but I would like it to be as elegant and efficient as possible as it is on a slow IIs box. My initial thought is to try to unify the row_making subs into one that accepts as args the rows it will spit out. Like so make_rows(3,1,3); to make 3 rows with three, one, and three data cells per row, but maybe someone sees a fancy use for map or something more elegant?
TIA
jg
sub by_parish  {

    print $q->header,start_html( {-title=>"Kids Count Data for $choice
+$headline"}) ,
        div({-align=>"center"},
        $top, h2({-align=>"CENTER"},"Data for $choice$headline"), hr({
+-width=>"400"}),
        ), #div
        p( b($t[$k++]),br,  ##iterate thru @ of table names
        table( {-width=>'600',-border=>'1'},  ##Population (1997)
            @toprow,
            parishdata_x3(),parishdata_x3(),parishdata_x1(),  ##call t
+he subs to print either 3 data cells or 1
        ), #table
              ), #p  

          p(  b($t[$k++]),br,  
        table( {-width=>'600',-border=>'1'},  ##Poverty (1995)
            @toprow,
            parishdata_x1(),parishdata_x1(),
        ), #table
.... #and so on

sub parishdata_x3 {
    Tr({-align=>"right"},
    td( {-align=>"center"}, b($r[$j++]), ),  #iterate thru @ of row la
+bels
    td( {-bgcolor=>"$data"}, @{$info{$choice}}[$i++] ),  #iterate thru
+ alpha sorted hash from excel file
    td( {-bgcolor=>"$data"}, @{$info{$choice}}[$i++] ),
    td( {-bgcolor=>"$data"}, @{$info{$choice}}[$i++] ),
    );
}

sub parishdata_x1 {
    Tr({-align=>"right"},
    td( {-align=>"center"}, b($r[$j++]), ),
    td( {-bgcolor=>"$data"}, " "),
    td( {-bgcolor=>"$data"}, " "),
    td( {-bgcolor=>"$data"}, @{$info{$choice}}[$i++] ),
    );
}

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