ok, this probably has an easy answer, but yet i can't think of it. i want to create a "table", not a table in html, otherwise this would be so easy, but it's not. the idea is, i have variable length data, and i want to be able to create a table out of it, if i give you a sample, and show how i'd want perl to output it, any ideas?
sample data: 1 Erazor 100 0 0 2 AnGeL` 500 0 0 4 ^ML^ 100 0 0 5 Joe 100 0 1 6 Liquid_Snake_911 100 0 0 121 Psycho 100 0 0 and i'd want the data to be outputted in this format (it'll be displayed using fixed width text): -------------------------------------------------- | ID | Nickname | ULEVEL | SLEVEL | AOP | |-----|------------------|--------|--------|-----| | 1 | Erazor | 100 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | AnGeL` | 500 | 0 | 0 | | 4 | ^ML^ | 100 | 0 | 0 | | 5 | Joe | 100 | 0 | 1 | | 6 | Liquid_Snake_911 | 100 | 0 | 0 | | 121 | Psycho | 100 | 0 | 0 | -------------------------------------------------- but for example, if "Liquid_Snake_911" wasn't there, the table would look like: ------------------------------------------ | ID | Nickname | ULEVEL | SLEVEL | AOP | |-----|----------|--------|--------|-----| | 1 | Erazor | 100 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | AnGeL` | 500 | 0 | 0 | | 4 | ^ML^ | 100 | 0 | 0 | | 5 | Joe | 100 | 0 | 1 | | 121 | Psycho | 100 | 0 | 0 | ------------------------------------------ so the column is either (length of the title + 2) or (length of largest record + 2). any clues on how this may be acheived? ta dan
