It is most certainly possible to render HTML using Perl. However, your question is a little vague to give you a full answer. Nonetheless, here is a generalized explanation of one method of doing so.
One method is using a simple
CGI. You're web server will have to be able to interpret CGI scripts, however most can with simple configuration changes.
For example, Apache for
Windows and/or
Linux will let you do so very simply.
Once configured, you can start your CGI script with very minimal code overhead. For example, the following will output 'Hello World!':
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello World!<br/>\n";
exit;
Now, using data from any datasource, etc., you can generate your HTML table using a simple loop, dynamically adding rows as necessary.
Also, as a last note, you may also want to look into the
CGI Perl Module on CPAN. There is a lot of functionality in this module that you will most likely take advantage of, particularly when beginning in Perl CGI scripts.
Good Luck!
Update:
Just noticed that
this node might be of some interest to you as well.
---hA||ta----
print map{$_.' '}grep{/\w+/}@{[reverse(qw{Perl Code})]} or die while ( 'trying' );
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