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Hi, I am trying to parse a HTML file with HTML::TableExtract. The main aim is to capture the final rows (that contain "TOTAL") into array reference. How come my code below doesn't do the job?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Carp;
use HTML::TableExtract;

my $temp_file = do {
    open my $in, '<', 'myfile.html'
        or carp "Can't open in $!\n";
    local $/ = undef;
    <$in>;
};

#--------------------------------------------------
# Extract Element of HTML Table
#--------------------------------------------------

#print Dumper $temp_file ;
( my $id ) = $temp_file =~ /([\w]+\.[\w\d]+)/ms;
print "$id\n";

my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new(
    headers => [
            'Data set','nTP','nFP',
            'nFN','nTN','sTP',
            'sFP','sFN',' ','nSn',
            'nPPV','nSp','nPC',
            'nCC','sSn','sPPV',
            'sASP',
    ]
);


$te->parse($temp_file);
my @all_table_content = $te->tables;

# Here to extract the 'last' row
my @total             = @{ $all_table_content[0]->[-1] };
print Dumper \@all_table_content ;
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The HTML file (myfile.html) that I want to parse and obtain the TOTAL result looks like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>
scrPage
</title>
</head>
<!--

-->

<!-- jsp:setProperty name="manager" property="*" /-->
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">

<h1>
Assessment Score
</h1>
<b>
Here is your confirmation ID: SP.A91389F67D1C79B4157818A8EDF2A6C2
</b>

<br>
<form method="get" action="http://wingless.cs.washington.edu:8080/asse
+ssment/servlet">
<input type="hidden" value="submission/SP.A91389F67D1C79B4157818A8EDF2
+A6C2" name="filenameID"/>
<input type="hidden" name="pageType" value="visualizationForm"/>
<br>
<INPUT TYPE=submit name="action" value="Visualize It">
<input type=submit name="action" value="Get Excel Spreadsheet"/>
<a href=http://bio.cs.washington.edu/assessment/statistics.html>statis
+tics explanation
</form>

<Table border = 3>
<tr><th>Data set<td>nTP<td>nFP<td>nFN<td>nTN<td>sTP<td>sFP<td>sFN<td> 
+<td>nSn<td>nPPV<td>nSp<td>nPC<td>nCC<td>sSn<td>sPPV<td>sASP<tr><th>dm
+01g<td>0<td>80<td>125<td>5795<td>0<td>8<td>7<td> <td>0<td>0<td>0.9863
+83<td>0<td>-0.0169565<td>0<td>0<td>0

<tr><th> 
<tr><th>Fly
<td>0<td>80<td>125<td>5795<td>0<td>8<td>7<td> <td>0<td>0<td>0.986383<t
+d>0<td>-0.0169565<td>0<td>0<td>0

<tr><th>Human
<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td> <td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<t
+d>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN

<tr><th>Mouse
<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td> <td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<t
+d>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN

<tr><th>Yeast
<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td>0<td> <td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<t
+d>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN<td>NaN

<tr><th>Total
<td>0<td>80<td>125<td>5795<td>0<td>8<td>7<td> <td>0<td>0<td>0.986383<t
+d>0<td>-0.0169565<td>0<td>0<td>0

</table>

</body>
</html>
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Regards,
Edward

In reply to Problem Parsing with HTML::TableExtract by monkfan

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