in reply to Formatting data as HTML to get the same appearance as mysql select return
You think it might be this?
print "<textarea>$song</textarea>"; ^^^
Update: And as to the second question, what's wrong with:
print "$blah{'one'}\t$blah{'two'}\n";
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