Data::showtable is a perl module which defines subroutines to print arrays of data in a nicely formatted listing, using one of four possible formats: simple table, boxed table, list style, and html-formatting (for world-wide-web output). in other words, showtable is a data formatting program. using the '-html' option, showtable can accept ascii tabular data and format it appropriately for display through a web-browser.