This largely depends on how well-formed the data is. If the pattern is fairly rigid, you can do something like the following. The key is making the pattern match work properly for all records.
use strict; use warnings; my ($handle, $data); open($handle, 'data.txt'); $data = join '', <$handle>; close($handle); open($handle, '>data.html'); print $handle qq| <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" border="0"><tr> <td><b>Name</b></td> <td><b>Age</b></td> <td><b>Phone</b></td>|; while ($data =~ /Name:? ?(.*?)\nAge:? ?(.*?)\nPhone:? ?(.*?)\n/igs) { print $handle qq| </tr><tr> <td>$1</td> <td>$2</td> <td>$3</td>|; } print $handle qq| </tr></table>|; close($handle);

In reply to Re: Read block of file and print to html table by TJPride
in thread Read block of file and print to html table by rockstar99

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