If you add LWP::Simple to HTML::TableExtract you've got a great deal of flexibility when parsing web pages.

To make page parsing a little easier:

local*FH;
open (FH, '>/tmp/somefile.txt');
$te->parse($content); # $content is your HTML page from LWP::Simple
 foreach my $ts ($te->table_states) {
  print FH "Table (", join(',', $ts->coords), "):\n";
  foreach my $row ($ts->rows) {
     print FH join(',', @$row), "\n";
  }
}
close FH;

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Which is lifted pretty much as is from the HTML::TableExtract documentation. I output it to a file so i can look at the output with the flexibility of my favourite text editor (vi).

I should point out the above code example will print out the co-ords of the tables in your page and the content of each cell.

In reply to Re: cURL help by Ryszard
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