I'm still developing VarStructor 1.0, and I'm thinking of adding the ability to display or save-to-file a table with columns containing a list of variables and their values for each iteration of the loop in which VarStructor is called, such as: 
Loop_Count = 1        Loop_Count = 2        Loop_Count = 3

$abc = aval1          $abc = aval2          $abc = aval3
$bce = bval1          $bce = bval2          $bce = bval2

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This could become difficult to read and navigate for long values, so I'm considering putting long values in some kind of text box with a scroll bar. The text boxes would all be the same size so everything will line up. I could do this with CGI, but I don't know how acceptable that would be for the average programmer.

Other methods I know of require ANSI escape sequences, which XP's command prompt doesn't support, and Curses stuff, which I know nothing about and looks complicated. Both are mentioned here.

Then there's plain old console output with the table formed with nothing but tabs and newlines.

Which method should I use? Does Tie::History already do this easily enough, or is there hope for my module?

In reply to Preferred output for development tool by Wassercrats

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