Try Text::Table and family (see AoAoA to Text (or HTML table to text) for example).

update: Forget Text::Table, Text::ASCIITable is better 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::ASCIITable;
my $t = Text::ASCIITable::->new;
$t->setCols('Nickname','Name');
$t->addRow('Lunatic-|','Håkon Nessjøen');
$t->addRow('tesepe','William Viker');
$t->addRow('espen','Espen Ursin-Holm');
$t->addRow('mamikk','Martin Mikkelsen');
$t->addRow('p33r','Espen A. Jütte');

$t->addRow(' ',' ');

$t->addRow( wishlist => '
#overload to accept
#push @$t, [ ( "poncho\nvilla" ) x 2 ];
# would be sweeet ');

$t->addRow(' ',' ');

my $p = Text::ASCIITable::->new;
$p->setCols(split'','ponchovilla');
$p->addRow(split'',reverse 'ponchovilla');
$p->addRow(split'','ponchovilla');

$t->addRow( poncho => $p->draw() );

$p = Text::ASCIITable::->new;
$p->setCols(qw'a b c');
$p->addRow(qw'you know me');
$t->addRow(' ',' ');
$t->addRow( abc => "$p" );


print $t->draw(); 
__END__
.=----------+----------------------------------------------=.
| Nickname  | Name                                          |
|=----------+----------------------------------------------=|
| Lunatic-| | Hskon Nessj°en                                |
| tesepe    | William Viker                                 |
| espen     | Espen Ursin-Holm                              |
| mamikk    | Martin Mikkelsen                              |
| p33r      | Espen A. Jntte                                |
|           |                                               |
| wishlist  |                                               |
|           | #overload to accept                           |
|           | #push @$t, [ ( "poncho\nvilla" ) x 2 ];       |
|           | # would be sweeet                             |
|           |                                               |
| poncho    | .=--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--=. |
|           | | p | o | n | c | h | o | v | i | l | l | a | |
|           | |=--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--=| |
|           | | a | l | l | i | v | o | h | c | n | o | p | |
|           | | p | o | n | c | h | o | v | i | l | l | a | |
|           | '=--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--=' |
|           |                                               |
| abc       | .=----+------+---=.                           |
|           | | a   | b    | c  |                           |
|           | |=----+------+---=|                           |
|           | | you | know | me |                           |
|           | '=----+------+---='                           |
'=----------+----------------------------------------------='

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