That you so much for your reply. It is point me in the right direction. I'll explain a little more what I have. I have a script that is ran on an hourly bases. It downloads a text file from the internet. and saves it by the time it was download. They are in this format 9:00-Fri-Sep-24-2010.txt. In the text file there are two rows. THe first row is a name and the second row is a number. So my table I want to look like this

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ... 23 #where this is the time the fil
+e was downloaded
now here is going to be the data, each column is going to be all the d
+ata for that time. the top will be the earilst and the bottom will be
+ the newest date.

#so the whole thing will look like this
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ... 23
5 6 4 5 7 9 545 65 ...
4 5 4 3 424 45  35 1..

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also here is a snipet of what the txt files look like

Kanes+Wrath 121
naffy123 136
Immortal+Hero 136
langers123x 120
Szundyyyyy 120
XfeverX 144
CaptainSalty 118
arhavin2 116
Layken 140
1Princess+Sparkle1 116

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Also when running the coded you provided I get the following output, which I am looking into the cause 
Global symbol "@tbl_rows" requires explicit package name at points2.cg
+i line 35.
Global symbol "@tbl_rows" requires explicit package name at points2.cg
+i line 44.
Execution of points2.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.

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In reply to Re^4: cgi table by frenchface
in thread cgi table by frenchface

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