Notice:
This is a script I wrote quite a while ago. It is not supported, but I left it here in case it might be useful to someone.

Please visit http://www.mattkruse.com/ for my updated web site and to find some of the things I've done more recently. Hopefully you will find something useful, or at least mildly interesting!

Table Maker

Tables can be very useful for a lot of things, but not everyone knows how to make them, and they can take quite a while to build.

If you know how to make tables, making a simple one is not very hard at all. But in my case, for instance, I am putting a 20-page catalog on the WWW, and it is complete with all kinds of price and information tables. Creating all of these separate small tables is quite a hassle, so I wanted an easier way to generate them. This script evolved from what I had originally written to get the job done.

Basically, this script let's you create a table in the correct HTML 3.0 form easily and quickly. All it can create (right now) are basic square tables, though. If you have an idea of how I could make an interface that would accept things like ROWSPAN and COLSPAN, I would appreciate some e-mail. I just don't know how I can make it easy to display and enter that kind of information.

This script is completely free, so please take it if you find it interesting. I would appreciate some mail if you like it, though. I always like to know how many people are using my scripts :).

Finally, you should note that many browsers cannot display HTML 3.0 tables. Netscape and the new version of Mosaic can, but I'm not sure of others. If you don't use a browser that displays tables, you'll just see a big mess and this will be useless.

Example Script: This is an example of how the script works. Test it out, but don't use it too much and slow down our server :)
Source Code: Here is the sample source code. This script is written in Perl 4.036 and may require modifications for Perl 5.0.