This example uses Perl::CGI

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use strict;

package main;
#
# I really like Perl::CGI  -- so this example incorporates it. 
#
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
my $q = new CGI;                        
my $human_legible = "\n";
print $q->header,                    
      $q->start_html('Table Example'),
      $q->h1('How to Format a table');         
#
# Add breaks so ppl can read the HTML output.
# This is an example after all.
#
print $human_legible;
#
# This is where we figure out spacing. It could be made into a
# function easily enough.
#
my $x_dim = 4;
my $y_dim = 5;
my $test_text = "This is a test";
my @array = ( $test_text, $test_text, $test_text, $test_text,
              $test_text, $test_text, $test_text );
my $table_rows = int((scalar @array) / $x_dim);
my $last_row_count = (scalar @array) % $x_dim;
#
# Print the table here.
#
print $q->start_table;
my $array_index = 0;
my $table_entries = "";
for ( my $r = 0; $r < $table_rows; $r++ ) {
    $table_entries = "";
    for ( my $j = 0; $j < $x_dim ; $j++ ) {
        $table_entries .= $q->td($array[$array_index]);
        $array_index++;
    }
    print $q->Tr($table_entries);
    print $human_legible;
}
$table_entries = "";
for ( my $i = 0; $i < $last_row_count ; $i++ ) {
    $table_entries .= $q->td($array[$array_index]);
    $array_index++;
} 
print $q->Tr($table_entries);
print $human_legible;
print $q->end_table;
print $q->end_html;

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The output is:

C:\Code>perl cgitable.pl
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
<head>
<title>Table Example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>How to Format a table</h1>
<table><tr><td>This is a test</td><td>This is a test</td><td>This is a
+ test</td>
<td>This is a test</td></tr>
<tr><td>This is a test</td><td>This is a test</td><td>This is a test</
+td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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In reply to Re: printing out a table X wide and X down without html::template by dwm042
in thread printing out a table X wide and X down without html::template by Anonymous Monk

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