Here's the way I've always done it in order to get totally flexible tables using HTML::Template -- the entire table is an AoHoAoH and you set the number of columns and rows in the code, not the HTML.

It feels a bit kludgy but I'd love monks to help me clean it up if they have any ideas: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use HTML::Template;
my $template = HTML::Template->new( filehandle => \*DATA );
my $total_cells       = 101;
my $max_column_height = 25;
my $row_width         = int( $total_cells / $max_column_height );
my @table             = ();
my @row_array         = ();
my %row_hash          = ();
for ( 1 .. $total_cells ) {
    push( @row_array, { content => $_ } );
    if ( scalar(@row_array) == $row_width ) {
        my @array = @row_array;
        push( @table, { columns => \@array } );
        @row_array = ();
    }
}
if ( @row_array  ) {
        # if there's a row that's incomplete
    while ( scalar(@row_array) != $row_width ) {
        push( @row_array, { content => ' ' } );
    }
    push( @table, { columns => \@row_array } );
}


$template->param( table => \@table );
open( TABLE, '>table.html' ) || die($!);
print TABLE $template->output();

__DATA__
<table border="1">
        <tmpl_loop name="table">
        <tr>
            <tmpl_loop name="columns">
                       <td><tmpl_var name="content"></td>
            </tmpl_loop>
        </tr>
        </tmpl_loop>
</table>

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In reply to Re: how to split html printout into two table cells by Cody Pendant
in thread how to split html printout into two table cells by Anonymous Monk

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