Monks, I'm having a blond moment with HTML::TableExtract.
The URL I'm parsing has anywhere from 1 to 6 tables I'm interested in, no headers, and there are tables at the same depth I'm not interested in. Therefore I'm using depth/count tuples to specify which tables I want to parse like so:
for ($mycount = 1; $mycount <=9; $mycount++) {
     my $te = new HTML::TableExtract ( depth => 1, count => $mycount )
+;
     # more stuff
}

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Of course, creating 9 objects and parsing the same file 9 times bugs me. I looked at the docs more closely and saw 
reset_state()

    If you are using the same HTML::TableExtract object for multiple p
+arses, call this between each parse to wipe the internal slate clean.

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which leads me to believe it's possible to reuse the $te object. However, I don't see a way to specify depth and count for an already existing object. Has anyone done this?

Thanks,
John

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