HTML rendering ignores multiple whitespace and newlines and renders as a single space. You can either specify a Content-Type of text/plain or you can wrap your stuff in <PRE> tags which specify preformatted text ie fixed width, render the spaces as expected.

Given that you have the power of HTML to hand you could just do a nice table. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; 

my @rows = join '', map{"<td>$_</td>"}('router ip', 'sip','dip','sif',
+'dif','proto','sport','dport','pkts','size');
for (@sort_result) {
    my @tmpdata = split /\|/;
    push @rows, join '', map{"<td>$_</td>"} @tmpdata[0..7], $flows{$_}
+{pkts}, $flows{$_}{size};
}
@rows = map{ "<tr>$_</tr>\n" } @rows;
print "<table border=1>\n" , @rows, "</table>";

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cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: How to format cgi output? by tachyon
in thread How to format cgi output? by iwanthome

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