Hey Monks
I have been using perl for about 6 months so I'm sorry for the simplicity of this question, but I'm stumpted. I am parsing an html table using HTML::TableExtract. When I display some of the rows they contain á which I want to substitute. I viewed the source of the html and the value that creates this accent mark is (&)nbsp; but without the parentheses. I have tried both the value seen in the source and the liveral value (á) as the the values in my s// but niether work. This accute accent mark is found both in the beginning and middle of some of the rows, so I cant just drop the first letter in the string. I would appreaciate any insight. Thanks

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