With Text::Table, I wonder if it's possible to add horizontal lines (rules) between each cell while not splitting multi-line cells.

$ cat ~/test/perl/text.table/text.table.pl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::Table;

my $tb =
  Text::Table->new(\'| ', "", \' | ', "Field ", \'| ', "Length ", \'| 
+',
  "Comment ", \' |');
my @AoA = (
  [ 1, "Foo", "20", "Foo" ],
  [ 2, "Bar", "35", "Bar\nBar" ],
  [ 3, "Tze", "10", "Tze\nTze" ],
);

$tb->load(@AoA);
my $rule = $tb->rule(qw/- +/);
my @arr = $tb->body;

print $rule, $tb->title, $rule;
for (@arr) {
  print $_ . $rule;
}

__END__
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Actual output:

$ /usr/bin/perl ~/test/perl/text.table/text.table.pl
+---+-------+--------+----------+
|   | Field | Length | Comment  |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
| 1 | Foo   | 20     | Foo      |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
| 2 | Bar   | 35     | Bar      |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
|   |       |        | Bar      |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
| 3 | Tze   | 10     | Tze      |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
|   |       |        | Tze      |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
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Wanted output:

$ /usr/bin/perl ~/test/perl/text.table/text.table.pl
+---+-------+--------+----------+
|   | Field | Length | Comment  |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
| 1 | Foo   | 20     | Foo      |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
| 2 | Bar   | 35     | Bar      |
|   |       |        | Bar      |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
| 3 | Tze   | 10     | Tze      |
|   |       |        | Tze      |
+---+-------+--------+----------+
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