I've gotten alot of help with removing white space, etc. in my extracted tables by searching here, but I'm having one problem I haven't seen a solution posted for yet. I'm extracting a table where one of the headers I want to keep is embedded in another table. ie. the headers look like this when extracted: header 1,,header 3, header 4 ...etc. That's because header 2 is in another table. Actually in that part of the table there are two additional tables (the first formatting the name I want, the second a search bar). I have no idea how to pull this data out (other than just going to a 'C' like for loop and pulling out $row2,$row4 from the full table maybe?). Is there a way to specify a header location instead of name? Any one help? Here's my code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

  use strict;
  use HTML::TableExtract;
  use LWP::UserAgent;

  my $url = 'http://some.foo.com';

  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  my $te = new HTML::TableExtract( headers=> ['Header 2','Header 4'], 
+depth => 0, count => 3);

  my $res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url),
            sub {$te->parse($_[0])});

 use Data::Dumper;
 $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;

 foreach my $ts ($te->table_states) {
   print "Table (", join(',', $ts->coords), "):\n";
   foreach my $row ($ts->rows) {
   foreach (@$row) {
       tr{\t\r\n\xAO}{ }s;
       s{^\s+}{};
       s{\s+$}{};
   }
#      print Dumper $row;
      print join(',', @$row), "\n";
   }
 }

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