A database would be good, but you can put it all in a file and use "|" to deliminate the fields (it is very unlikly "|" will be found in a text file). I would then write a script that would read the file and put the values in an array and use a foreach loop to create the html. 
# to read from the file
open (FILE,"</myfile");
flock FILE,1;
while (<FILE>){
($tmp_state,$tmp_job) = split /\|/,$_;
push @job, $tmp_job;
}
# sort @job or @state how you would like
# Print html header
foreach $tmp_job(@job){
# Print html with @job for a value and 
}
# Print html footer

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That should be a basic outline for your code.

PS A good way to learn how to write a program is to write all the steps you need to do in comments. Then you can write the code that will do what you wrote in your comment. 

#open file
#lock file
#read user input
#write user input to file
#close file

#open file
open (FILE,"</myfile");
#lock file
flock FILE,2;
#read user input
$input = <STDIN>;
#write user input to file
print FILE "$input";
#close file
close FILE;

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In reply to Re: Parsing e-mail and building HTML by c-era
in thread Parsing e-mail and building HTML by rograndom

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