Works For Me: 
use CGI qw(:standard);

my @headers = ( th('a'),th('b'),th('b'), );
my @row    = ( td('1'),td('2'),td('3'), );

print table(
    thead( Tr( @headers ) ),
    tbody( Tr( @row ) ),
);

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output: 
    <table>
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>    a
                </th>
                <th>    b
                </th>
                <th>    b
                </th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>    1
                </td>
                <td>    2
                </td>
                <td>    3
                </td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>

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It's not a matter of slipping thead/tbody in, it's a matter of wrapping them around the outside.

But as everyone else says I'd use templating instead.


($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Re: Programmatically generating HTML tables including <thead> and <tbody> by Cody Pendant
in thread Programmatically generating HTML tables including <thead> and <tbody> by andyford

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