i'm restating my problem, because i tried out each of the suggestions, and i couldn't get where i need to go with any of them. i am very much a beginner and am working hard on this, but spinning my wheels - i appreciate the help. 

i have a table like this:

rowid   course1   course2   course3  course4
marge   psychology   math   engineering   pe
roy   math   reading   art   cooking
etc.
one of these fields will have lots of text with line breaks.

i have a form.  the form will send a request to a cgi, passing a value
+ which matches a value in "rowid" from the table.  

i need to open the file that contains the table, find the row that mat
+ches the value passed by the form, read that row into an array (or ha
+sh?) and print it out in html.

i'm able to open the file and put it into an array and print it, but i
+ don't know enough perl yet to take just the row i want and assign la
+bels to each value.

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