Yeah, I knew that might be an issue. But the data isn't accessable through the web (it's on an internal server behind a firewall for work). I've tried to recreate the problem in the HTML below.

What I am trying to pull out is that "Header 2" that is actually in the "Header 1" position of the next deeper table. Changing the depth with TableExtract will pull out a deeper table, but it doesn't link it with the previous table. The documentation for this module talks about chaining tables, but it seems as I understand it, that you are chaining the table for ALL cases. (ie. not just the Header 2 situation, but Header 1,2,3,4 would then be expected to be in a deeper table)

Seems like a case this module probably didn't expect and wouldn't be expected to work properly with, however, I'm wondering if there is way I can still get the functionality out.... thanks! 

<table>
     <tr>
        <td>Header 1</td>
        <td>
                <table>
                <tr><form action="search.php" name="searchsimple" meth
+od="post">
                        <td><b>Header 2</b>
                        </td>
                        <td>
                             <a href="thispage.php" ><font size="1" co
+lor="white">Update this page</font></a>
                        </td>
                        <td>
                                <table>
                                     <tr>
                                      td><b>Search the web:</b></font>
+ </td>                                    
                                      <td>
                                          <input type="text" name=sear
+chtext size=10>
                                          <input type="submit" value="
+Search!">
                                      </td>
                                </tr>
                                </table>
                        </td>
                </tr></form>
                </table>
        </td>
        <td> Header 3</td>
        <td> Header 4</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>... data </tr>
    <tr>... data </tr>
    <tr>... data </tr>
</table>

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

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