You've got a couple of problems.
  1. split takes a regex, so you have to quote the pipe.
  2. You're assigning a list to a scalar in the hash, so you're just storing the number of elements. If you want to store the entire list, you have to say $sites{$site} = [@values];

Now, as to printing the table. I'm assuming you're printing in the order that they come in. Here's how I like to do this kind of thing: 

my @rows;
open (INFILE, "<sites.txt");
my @headings = ( "Site Name", "Site Address", "Status", "Comments" );
push( @rows, th( \@headings ) );
while (<INFILE>) {
    my @fields = split /\|/;
    push( @rows, td( \@fields ) );
} # while
close (INFILE);
print table( TR( \@rows ) );
# NOTE: It's TR, not tr, so it doesn't get confused with tr///

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Andy
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In reply to Re: tables with CGI.pm by petdance
in thread table()'s with CGI.pm by mexnix

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