Turning string into a table

Is there a way to make for example:

// (Column info)
// String 1:
[This column holds
[Col 1]
[Col 2]]
[This second column holds
[Col 3]
[Col 4]]

// (Row)
// String 2:
[Col 1 (row1)]
[Col 2 (row1)]
[Col 3 (row1)]
[Col 4 (row1)]

// (Row)
// String 3:
[Col 1 (row2)]
[Col 2 (row2)]
[Col 3 (row2)]
[Col 4 (row2)]

// How do I turn the above strings into a table?
// Like this:

<table>
<tr>
<td colspan=2>This column holds</td>
<td colspan=2>This second column holds</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Col 1</td>
<td>Col 2</td>
<td>Col 3</td>
<td>Col 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Col 1 (row 1)</td>
<td>Col 2 (row 1)</td>
<td>Col 3 (row 1)</td>
<td>Col 4 (row 1)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Col 1 (row 2)</td>
<td>Col 2 (row 2)</td>
<td>Col 3 (row 2)</td>
<td>Col 4 (row 2)</td>
</tr>
</table>

You get the idea...
So, any idea how to do that?
I want it to work correctly no matter how many rows and columns there are.

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On Jul 13, 2003, "zavaboy" claimed that:

|Is there a way to make for example:
|
|// (Column info)
|// String 1:
|[This column holds
|[Col 1]
|[Col 2]]
|[This second column holds
|[Col 3]
|[Col 4]]
|
|// (Row)
|// String 2:
|[Col 1 (row1)]
|[Col 2 (row1)]
|[Col 3 (row1)]
|[Col 4 (row1)]
|
|// (Row)
|// String 3:
|[Col 1 (row2)]
|[Col 2 (row2)]
|[Col 3 (row2)]
|[Col 4 (row2)]
|
|// How do I turn the above strings into a table?
[snipped]
|You get the idea...
|So, any idea how to do that?
|I want it to work correctly no matter how many rows and columns there are.
|


Not sure if this is exactly what you need, but it "makes the design of
HTML tables easy, flexible, reusable and efficient."

http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=HTML_Table
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