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This is the first time I've built something like this. This is the work script I wrote, to figure out how to do it. The real script is part of a much larger application.

What I'd like to know is, is there a more elgant way to do this? I don't think this is that bad, but I know there's always a way to use less code. I was also wondering if there is a standard way that a more experienced person would do this.

You can ignore the href's, they're part of the use of this table, long story.

#/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>Build Table.pl</title></head>\n";
print "<body>\n";

$total_cells = 517; # would be recordset
$display_cells = $total_cells / 15;
$row_count = 10; # rows for my table
$col_count = $display_cells / $row_count; # cols I'll have


print "<table cellpadding=\"4\" border=1>\n";

# counters
$row_inc = 1;
$col_lable = 1;
$nav_count = 15;
$nav_inc = 15;

for($r = 1; $r <= $row_count; $r++) # build rows
{
    print "<tr>\n";
    
    for($c = 0; $c < $col_count; $c++) # build cols
    {
        if($nav_count < $total_cells)
        {
            print "<td><a href=\"mypage.html?nav=$nav_count\">$col_lab
+le</a></td>";
        }
        else
        {
            print "<td>&nbsp;</td>";
        }
        
        $col_lable+=10;
        $nav_count+=150;
    }
    
    print "</tr>\n";
    
    $row_inc++;
    $col_lable = $row_inc;
    $nav_inc+=15;
    $nav_count = $nav_inc;
    
}
print "</table>";
print "</body></html>\n";

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