Thanks for all input. With the code mentioned below that is inspired by your input and some article re. HTML::template on perl.com I've got HTML::template creating a nice table with odd/even rows. Just one thing to work on is how if it were not a single column table. Guess I've got to read the csv that's providing the data for the table into a hash. That'll be a challenge again. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use HTML::Template;

open( OUT, ">fruit.html" ) or die "cant open out $!";

my $html   = do{local $/;<DATA>};

my $tpl = HTML::Template->new(
   scalarref => \$html,
    loop_context_vars => 1,
    filter            => \&cstmrow_filter
);

my @rows = ( "Apple", "Orange", "Mango", "Kiwi" );

my @loop_data = ();    # initialize an array to hold my loop
while (@rows) {
    my %row_data;      # a hash for my data list
    $row_data{FILES} = shift @rows;
    push( @loop_data, \%row_data );
}

$tpl->param( rows => \@loop_data );

print OUT $tpl->output;

sub cstmrow_filter {
    my $text_ref = shift;
    $$text_ref =~ s/<CSTM_ROW\s+EVEN=(.+)\s+ODD=(.*)\s*>
                 /<TMPL_IF NAME=__odd__>
                    <tr class="$1">
                  <TMPL_ELSE>
                    <tr class="$2">
                  <\/TMPL_IF>
                 /gx;
}

__DATA__
<head>
    <style type="text/css">
        .odd  { background-color: #d3d3d3 }
        .even { background-color: #90ee90     }
      </style>
</head>
<body>

     <p>
    <table class="center"> 
      <TMPL_LOOP NAME=rows>
    <CSTM_ROW EVEN=even ODD=odd>
    <td>  <TMPL_VAR NAME=FILES></td>
    </tr>
      </TMPL_LOOP>
    </table>
    </p>

</body>
</html>

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