With the latest things I've been working on, I've been trying to get into the Perl (and CGI.pm) way of thinking. This is a problem that struck me today, I just wasn't sure what to do, but it may require changing my data structures. This comes from a script I decided to put together to keep a current status of all our web sites so that my department (1 programmer working in a graphics design studio) doesn't get ignored. The data comes in like this :

my %sites;
open (INFILE, "<sites.txt");
#data from file looks like this:
#sitename|siteaddress|status|comments
 while (<INFILE>) {
  my($name, @status) = split/|/;
  $sites{$name} = @status;
}
close (INFILE);

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Now I want to take %sites and print it into table. My first thought was that I would iterate over %sites with foreach and print a <td> each time, but when I was reading the CGI.pm documention, table() was totally different than I thought. What I want to do is print a table that looks roughly like this:

Site Name | Site Address       | Status             | Comments
$site     | $sites{$site}->[0] | $sites{$site}->[1] | $sites{$site}->[2]

Is this possible? Or does %sites need to change to @sites or a hash reference?

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