which in turn can be shortened to

print join(",",unpack("A8A10A2",$_)),"\n" while <DATA>;
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and run from the command line as

perl -i.bak -l -ne "print join(',',unpack('A8A10A2',$_));" filename
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this will do the conversion for you. I'm sure there's a module out there which parses comma delimited files into html tables. hope this helps

larryk

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