Best way to have a formatted output with Perl

Question

I want to output strings into eight columns, but I want to keep the spacing the same. I don\'t want to do it in HTML, but I am not sure how to do it normally. Example:

Answer 1

I would look at formatting, but I would do it using Perl 6's (now Raku) Form.pm, which you can obtain as Perl6::Form for Perl 5.

The reason for this is that the format builtin has a number of drawbacks, such as having the format statically defined at compile time (i.e., building it dynamically can be painful and usually requires string eval), along with a whole list of other shortcomings, such as lack of useful field types (and you can't extend these in Perl 5).