I'm really struggling with trying to figure out if HTML::TableExtract is finding any legitimate tables. I'm trying to use the header method. Is there a simple way to print to screen whether the header method actually found a table, or if it doesn't find a table, have it print an error? Here's what I'm using: 

 use HTML::TableExtract;
 $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( headers => [qw(Date Price Cost)] );
 $te->parse($html_string);

 # Examine all matching tables
 foreach $ts ($te->tables) {
   print "Table (", join(',', $ts->coords), "):\n";
   foreach $row ($ts->rows) {
      print join(',', @$row), "\n";
   }
 }

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In reply to HTML::TableExtract - Easy Way To Tell If It Found A Table? by jdlev

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