OK let's take WWW::Mechanize out of the equation, for the moment. Does this stand-alone snippet work for you?

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTML::TableExtract qw/ tree /;

my $html = <<EOT;
<html>
  <head>
    <title>test page</title>
  <head>
  <body>
    <table>    
      <tr><td>parse me</td></tr>
    </table>    
  </body>
</html>
EOT

my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new;
$te->parse($html);

my $table = $te->first_table_found;
my $tree = $table->tree;

print $tree->cell(0,0)->as_text;

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BTW, your test HTML is malformed (there's no closing <head> tag), but that doesn't affect the output of the script, at least on my machine...

In reply to Re^9: HTML::TableExtract (parse table column from an HTML page) by Not_a_Number
in thread HTML::TableExtract (parse table column from an HTML page) by cafaro

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