in reply to HTML::TableExtract woes

I can only confirm observing the same behavior. The only thing that comes to mind is bypassing it by saying 
@columns = $t->columns();
print Dumper $columns[0];

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which seems to work for me. (didn't check the correctness of the data printed though)
use strict; use warnings; print "Just Another Perl Hacker\n";

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