While it does not directly answer your question, I wanted to comment on style. In general, using variable names like this: 

[$hardware1, $hardwareValue1],
[$hardware2, $hardwareValue2],
[$hardware3, $hardwareValue3],

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is a bad idea. See Why it's stupid to use a variable as as a variable name for more information.

You can use arrays, hashes, or some combination thereof to accomplish the same thing, and your data structures will be much more robust. For example: 

# array
my @hardware;
$hardware[1] = 'whatever';

# hash
my %hardware;
$hardware{1} = 'whatever';

# hash of hashes
my %hardware;
$hardware{1} = { hw => 'whatever', value => 'somevalue' };

# hash of arrays
my %hardware;
$hardware{1} = [ 'whatever', 'somevalue' ];

# array of arrays
my @hardware;
$hardware[1] = [ 'whatever', 'somevalue' ];

# array of hashes
my @hardware;
$hardware[1] = { hw => 'whatever', value => 'somevalue' };

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See perldsc for more information on complex data structures.

HTH

In reply to Re: Creating a Dynamic Table by bobf
in thread Creating a Dynamic Table by ikkon

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