in reply to perl loops + html tables

And here's a very easily understood solution....
use strict; my @column_names = ('col1', 'col2','col3'); my @values = ('val1','val2','val3','val4','val5','val6'); for (0..$#column_names) { print qq(<tr><td>$column_names[$_]</td><td>$values[($_*2)]</td><td +>$values[($_*2)+1]</td></tr>\n); }