Since you don't provide a sample of the HTML you are attempting to parse, it's pretty much impossible to knwo what's going on. I think you mean that you have one table contained within another table, and it is the inner table that interests you.

Assuming that is the case, and looking at the doc for HTML::TableExtract, it appears that you can pass it a string with $te->parse($html);, so I'd parse the outer table, and upon finding the element which is the contained table, hand that text to another properly defined instance of HTML::TableExtract->parse().

Update: After playing around, I observe the following:

Using depth=><some_numer> would let you pick out the embeddded table you want.

HTML::TableExtract is pretty cool.

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

In reply to Re: Embedded Table Headers with HTML::TableExtract by bobn
in thread Embedded Table Headers with HTML::TableExtract by hoopsbwc34

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