Hello,

I want to output the contents of a DB table into an HTML table.

The DB table has 600 rows.
I'de like to have the output be formatted as an HTML table with 3 columns of 200 rows each.

<tr>
  <td>$indexs0-200</td>
  <td>$indexs201-400</td>
  <td>$indexs401-600</td>
</tr>

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I've gotten as far as outputting one long column, but this is as far as I got.
I'm thinking I need to do a while loop with a for statement in it but I'm not really sure how to do it.
Heres my code so far: Thanks - Donzo

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use DBI;
use strict;
use CGI;

my $q;
$q = new CGI;
print $q->header,
      $q->start_html("District List");


my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:PM_Pages","","") or die "Cannot conne
+ct: " . $DBI::errstr;

my $sql = "select District,DIST from Districts";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "Cannot prepare: " . $dbh->errstr
+();
$sth->execute() or die "Cannot execute: " . $sth->errstr();


my $district;
my $ID;
while (($district,$ID) = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
    
    print ("a href=\"$ID\">$district</a> <br>
"); } 


$sth->finish(); 
$dbh->disconnect; 
print $q->end_html;

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In reply to DBI output in 3 columns by Donzo

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