Ive looked at the spreadsheet mod : there is quite a bit of repetitive text in it.
(the <TD>$rec{'XXX'</td><td>$rec{'yyy'}</td>
is it possible to put this into one string
eg
$table_ string = "<TD>$rec{'XXX'</td><td>$rec{'yyy'}</td>";

print qq|
$table_string
|;

:this deosnt work !!
but what does???