You can't quite do it that way. Rember that each CGI HTML function returns a bit of text that has to be used. Inside that while loop, you're just discarding the results. They're not being fed back into the main table() call. What you need is something like this: 
print $html_page->table(
     $html_page->tr(
          map
          {
               $html_page->td($_)
          } ....
     )
);

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This will probably have to be re-tooled for your application. Remember that a while call does not return any data, yet a map call does. Update: I think Zaxo has a more thorough example.

As a note, I would shorten your $html_page variable. Single-letter variable names are fine, provided it's clear what they are. I frequently use $q for a CGI query, $r for an Apache request, and so forth. It gets kind of difficult to type out seven letters instead of two. Laziness, I know.

In reply to Re: CGI Tables by tadman
in thread CGI Tables by Anonymous Monk

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