You made a number of mistakes in your HTML. For instance, you say the type is text/html, yet you don't have an html tag at all. You also don't say what size the border is supposed to be. And you don't define a background color (some browsers default to grey, which isn't pretty). Maybe you want something more like: 
print <<OUT;
Content-Type: text/html


<html>
<head>
  <title> DEEEalers </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<h1> Dealers Listing</h1>
<table border="1">
<tr><th>surname</th><th>given</th><th>suburb</th><th>postcode</th></tr
+>
OUT

open (NAMES, "/var/www/cgi-bin/data/dealers.txt");
while (<NAMES>) {
    next if !m/^B/; chomp;
    print "<tr><td>", join ("</td><td>", (split /[,\s]+/, $_)[0..3]), 
+"</td></tr>\n";
}
close (NAMES);

print <<OUT;
</table>

</body>
</html>
OUT

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I suggest figuring out what all of this does and rewriting it in your own format, rather than copying it verbatim. Your teacher might check here, who knows.

In reply to Re: Help on String manipulation by TedPride
in thread Help on String manipulation by jiaoziren

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