Hi All

I am trying to get data out of some HTML tables, which is largely working. i am having 2 issues and I have no idea how to resolve, and Google has not helped. I am very new to PERL and programming so I don't even know what I should be looking for to solve this issue.

Issue 1: HTML::TableExtract cannot pick up any data for the first cell. I guess this is because this cell is a html link to a *.png file, for example (line 380):

<td><img class="minimizeStyle" src="http://www.risa.com.au/JockeySilks/58035.png" /></td>.

What I would like to do is populate the first cell in each row with the 58035.png (in this case).

Issue 2: Where HTML::TabelExtract find an empty cell, it ignores it, for example (line 391):

<td style="text-align:center"></td>

Instead of ignoring it I would like a "," to be inserted so that when (eventually) a csv file is created everything will be in line.

The code I have at this stage is:

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TableExtract;
use LWP::Simple;
my $html = get("http://www.risa.com.au/FreeFields/Results.aspx?Key=201
+3Aug19,VIC,Echuca");
my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new;
$te->parse($html);
# Table parsed, extract the data
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
foreach my $table ( $te->tables ) {
        foreach my $row ($table->rows) {
        my @values = grep {defined} @$row;
        print "   ", join(',', @values), "\n";
        }# Foreach
       
    }# Foreach

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I hope someone is able to point me in the right direction.

Cheers

Mr Bigglesworth

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