While I appreciate you not wanting to trash up the post with a bunch of html garbage, it does make it slightly more troublesome for someone to assist you, which means you might not get as many responses as you might want. I'd suggest amending your post to add something like the following line just after the use statement:

my $html = "<table>" . "<tr><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr>" x 100 . "</tabl
+e>";
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