Hi guys. Thanks again for all the comments. While I was playing with this, I had the "old way" (with the extra pipe) and the "new way" printing at the same time, and the top line was longer than the second, and it looked cool. So I decided to try to divise a programmatic way to split the line into two, with the top part never having less elements than the second. My algorithm was to take the final string, count the number of pipes in it, and then turn the "middle" one (and, if no clear "middle," then skew towards later in the string) into a br tag. Here's what I came up with: 
my $homes=join(" |",@la);
#print $homes;
my @pipes;
my $pos;
while ($homes =~ m/\|/g){
  push @pipes, pos($homes)-1;
}
my $numps=scalar(@pipes);
my $ptr= $numps-int($numps/2); #no ceil() function in perl
substr($homes,$pipes[$ptr],1,"<br>");#not catching rv--is that bad?
print $homes;

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I know there are probably better ways, but I kind of had fun figuring this out in a way that's flexible if sections are added/subtracted.
I like computer programming because it's like Legos for the mind.

In reply to Re: Turning a hash into a line of links by OfficeLinebacker
in thread Turning a hash into a line of links by OfficeLinebacker

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