ok, thanks for the good ideas.. after some hacking and testing I finally got the output in a workable format using awk.

I've outputted the results to an ascii file in a comma delimited format..
my output file is called tstres.txt
and typical lines in the file look like this:

TSTR01 , Mar 29 21:29:17 EDT 2009 , PASS: , Power Check
TSTR01 , Mar 30 00:54:55 EDT 2009 , PASS: , Power Check
TSTR01 , Mar 30 08:31:31 EDT 2009 , **FAIL: , Power Check
TSTR02 , Mar 07 14:41:08 EST 2009 , PASS: , Power Check
TSTR02 , Mar 07 21:46:33 EST 2009 , PASS: , Power Check

What is the easiest way to take this data file and output it to an html table ?

My plan is to have the script run in a cron job and all I'll need to do is view the html page.