in reply to display database records at the console

I'd suggest trying Text::Table. However, I've also tried things like printing to a file, something like this:

print $OF "<table><tr><td>", join("</td><td>", @{$ST->{NAME}}), "</td> +</tr>\n"; while (my $ar=$ST->fetchrow_arrayref) { print $OF "<tr><td>", join("</td><td>", @$ar), "</td></tr>\n"; } print $OF "</table>\n";

and then viewing the file in a browser. (Note: I wrote this off the top of my head, so it's untested, etc.)

...roboticus

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