in reply to Re-dimensioning an HTML table with Perl ?

I usually use HTML::TableExtract to convert an HTML table into an array of arrays. You can then do whatever you like with the structure, serializing it back to HTML should be easy. 
($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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