if ( ref($row->[7]) eq "HTML::ElementTable::DataElement" )
    {
        print $row->[7]->as_text;
    }

##</code><code>##

use Scalar::Util 'blessed';

    if ( blessed($row->[7]) and $row->[7]->can("as_text") )
    {
        print $row->[7]->as_text;
    }