ok, i'm getting soooo close (maybe). i now have just the course printing, but it's printing the same course for each key. what am i doing wrong? 
my $value = param('name');#the value passed from the webpage
my %data = ();
my @fields = split(/\t/, <FILE>); 
my $row;
my $id;
my $course;
chomp @fields;
my @records;
my @course;
while(<FILE>) {
    
chomp;     
    my @row = split(/\t/); 
        if ($row[0] eq $value) { 
        ($id, $course) = split (/\t/); 
        my %data; #then put the row into a hash.
        @data{@fields} = @row; 
        push @records, \%data; 
    }        
}
close (FILE);

    
for my $ref (@records){
    my %data = %$ref;
    print ul( map { ul("$course") } keys %data);

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