OK, Monks, I have more of a conceptual question this time. I have a whole mess of data in a big ol' nested HoHoH (and the occasional array, too). Format like what's below:

%cmdData = (
     'command_1' => {
          'subfields' => [],
          'description' => 'descriptive text',
          'safety' => 'SAFE',
          'opcode' => 'code_1'
                    },
     'command_2' => {
          'subfields' => [
               {
                  '_size' => 32,
                   'state_conversions' => [],
                   'subfield_name' => 'sub_1',
                   '_fsw_type' => 'UINT32',
               },
               {
                  '_size' => 32,
                   'state_conversions' => [],
                   'subfield_name' => 'sub_2',
                   '_fsw_type' => 'UINT32',
               },
                          ],
          'description' => 'descriptive text',
          'safety' => 'SAFE',
          'opcode' => 'code_2'
                    }
     'command_3' => {
          'subfields' => [
               {
                  '_size' => 16,
                   'state_conversions' => [],
                   'subfield_name' => 'sub_3',
                   '_fsw_type' => 'UINT16',
               },
               {
                  '_size' => 32,
                   'state_conversions' => [],
                   'subfield_name' => 'sub_4',
                   '_fsw_type' => 'UINT32',
               },
               {
                  '_size' => 8,
                   'state_conversions' => [],
                   'subfield_name' => 'sub_4',
                   '_fsw_type' => 'UINT8',
               },
                          ],
          'description' => 'descriptive text',
          'safety' => 'SAFE',
          'opcode' => 'code_3'
                    }
)
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I have some code that, right now, goes through this data and, for each command, comes up with an HTML table like this (example for command 3 in the data above):

opcode	subfield(s)
code_1	sub_1	sub_2	sub_3

99% of the time, this is fine. But there's a couple of commands that have a LOT of subfields - like 20 of them - and that just doesn't fit well.

What I am trying to determine is if there's a relatively easy way to break the big ones down into multiple tables. Like put the first 5 subfields in the first table, cut it off, then put the next 5 into another table, and so on. If this is going to be a PITA, or just take forever to code up, then I have my boss' OK to ignore the problem - we're talking about < 5 commands out of close to 300 that this applies to.

The existing code just uses a foreach to iterate through (and sort) the commands, an if/else to check for the existence of subfields, and if there are subfields, a for to iterate through those.

So, what do you guys think? Any brilliant insights? Should I leave the sleeping puppies alone, or can you think of a simple/quick way to handle this?

Thanks!