Hello,

I posted this question a few days ago, hoping to resolve my problem, which is that I am able to successfully retrieve the table data from a website but the 4 columns each come out on a separate line. I received a reply from someone with the suggestion to chomp newlines, but I have tried a whole bunch of variations and I am getting nowhere. A big part of my problem is lack of experience in this area (with tables). Can someone please straighten me out on where I am going wrong? What I am hoping to get is something like this:

a1,a2,a3,a4
b1,b2,b3,b4
.
.
.

But it's just not happening. Every field i.e., a1, a2, etc., is coming out on separate lines. I need some heavy-duty expert advice. This is the code I have so far: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;  
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TableExtract;

my $url;
$url="http://www.earnings.com/fin/earnListing.jsp?tckr=&exch=&eff=&dat
+e=2003-05-04";
my $content=get $url;
my $te = new HTML::TableExtract( headers =>
        [qw(Company Symbol Estimate Actual)] );
$te->parse($content);

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

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Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

edited: Mon May 12 14:17:10 2003 by jeffa - code tags, title change (was: This Newbie Needs Perl Monks Help In Displaying Web Table Data Properly)

In reply to Displaying Web Table Data Properly by canguro

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