I just began using HTML::Template and am trying to create an HTML table. In all the examples I've read so far (POD, online), the tables are very basic -- one set of data per row and column, vis:

+--------+--------+
| Name   | Phone  |
+--------+--------+
| Name2  | Phone2 |
+--------+--------+
...

I would like to do the following:

+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Name  | Name1 | Name2 | Name3 |
| Phone | Phone1| Phone2| Phone3|
+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Name4 | Name5 | Name6 | Name7 |
| Phone4| Phone5| Phone6| Phone7|
+-------+-------+-------+-------+

Does this make sense?

My code does not work:

<table border="0">
<TMPL_LOOP NAME="PHONE_LOOP">
<tr>
<td>
<TMPL_VAR NAME="NAME">
<br>
<TMPL_VAR NAME="PHONE">
</td>
<td>
<TMPL_VAR NAME="NAME">
<br>
<TMPL_VAR NAME="PHONE">
</td><td>
<TMPL_VAR NAME="NAME">
<br>
<TMPL_VAR NAME="PHONE">
</td><td>
<TMPL_VAR NAME="NAME">
<br>
<TMPL_VAR NAME="PHONE">
</td>
</tr>
</TMPL_LOOP>
</table>

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This, of course, just repeats the same pair of variables four times in the row, instead of getting the first four sets. I know I could create the rows in the Perl script, but the idea of the HTML::Template would be that I could tweak the template to adjust how many columns.

Any help, pointers, docs would be very helpful. Thanks

In reply to Column Count w/ HTML::Template by dejoha

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