in reply to Converting Text Files

The short answer would be something like this:

#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;

print "<html><head><title>Table</title></head>\n";
print qq{<body><table border="1">\n};
while( <DATA>)
  { print '<tr><td>';
    print join '</td><td>', split /\|/; 
    print "</td></tr>";
  }
print '</table></body></html>';
__DATA__
row 1 | 1 | 2
row 2 | 1 | 2
row 3 | 1 | 2

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But if you want to write anything serious you should look at DBI, DBD::RAM or DBD::CSV and CGI.

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