Hi, I was hoping for some help with parsing out information from a very large string variable so that I might place html tags around different portions of the string. Here goes:

I have a variable that contains both spaces and newline characters. Within an HTML table, I would like to create a new row for each "\n" character in the string and a new colum for every space in the string.

My code looks like this so for, but I know that it is incorrect. 
                                                 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $input='unixhelp pts/5 10.3.4.54 Fri Jun 13 11:08 still logged in
unixhelp pts/5 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 11:05 - 11:05 (00:00)
unixhelp pts/5 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 11:04 - 11:05 (00:00)
unixhelp pts/5 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 11:00 - 11:01 (00:00)
unixhelp pts/5 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 10:49 - 10:52 (00:03)
unixhelp pts/8 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 10:46 - 10:46 (00:00)
unixhelp pts/3 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 10:12 - 10:12 (00:00)
unixhelp pts/3 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 10:10 - 10:10 (00:00)
unixhelp pts/3 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 10:09 - 10:09 (00:00)
unixhelp pts/3 10.3.4.00 Fri Jun 13 10:07 - 10:08 (00:00)';

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><BODY>\n";
print " <TABLE>\n";
print "  <TR>\n";

foreach ($input)
  { print "<TD>"; print; print "\n</TD>"}

print "  </TR>\n";
print " </TABLE>\n";
print "<BODY><HTML>\n";

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This code only places a table around the entire variable and does not break it up into pieces. I am still very new to perl and am not sure of all of the unique things that you can do with a for loop. If anyone knows how to seperate a variable into pieces using newline and space as a character, I would be very appreciateive if you would send me some suggestions or resources. Thank you very much for your time in reading this.

In reply to Parsing Variables by JoeJaz

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