Perfect! Text::ASCIITable works great and does most things for me. In either ascii or in html table format... 
#!/eng/local/bin/perl

# table maker
require '/home/top/hfranks/perl/ASCIITable.pm';

# database hack
require "../mysql_handeler.pl";
require "../template.pl";

#new table
$t = new Text::ASCIITable;

$user="hfranks";

@id=mysql_handeler('select uid from users_student where name="'.$user.
+'";');

$uid=$id[1];


#mysql statements
@res=mysql_handeler('select * from EECS2550 where uid="'.$uid.'";');
chomp @res;



#column title   
@top=split(/    /, shift(@res));

#remove 2 unwanted auto_increment fields
shift (@top);
shift (@top);
$t->setCols(\@top);

 
#get rows
foreach $line (@res){
        chomp $line;
        @ary = split(/  /, $line);

    #remove two unwanted auto_increment fields
        shift (@ary);
        shift (@ary);
    
        $t->addRow(@ary);

}


#print it

#normal ascii output
#$cOntent .= $t->draw();


#advanced html output
$cOntent.=$t->draw(
 ['<table border="1">','','',''],   #  <table><tr></tr>
               ['<tr><td>','</td></tr>','</td><td>'],
               ['','','',''],                   
               ['<tr><td>','</td></tr>','</td><td>'],
               ['','</table>','',''],
              );




 my $template = "../template.html";
 my %gTokens=();
 my $key="<!--something-->";

 $gTokens{"$key"} = $cOntent;
 &SendTemplate($template,%gTokens);

[download]
html result:

test1 test2 test3 quiz1 homework final
100 100 100 10 100 100

In reply to Re: Re: structured printing of arrays by hacker_j99
in thread structured printing of arrays by hacker_j99

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