Hi all, I'm a newbie so please bear with me. I'm using HTML::TableExtract to get data out of some tables and I'm trying to figure out how to put it into a hash.

As an example, let's say that every day Bob, Carol, Ted, & Alice each publish what they plan on eating for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the day in a table on their respective websites. I want to go to each website, get the data from each table and store it in a hash so I can then create a table on my own web page which will summarize what each person is eating that day. The reason for the hash is that it's going to be tied to a DBM to which I will be adding other data from other scripts, and this way everything is stored in one DBM for easy access.

For example, here's what Bob's table would look like:

<TABLE>
<TR>><TH></TH><TH>Breakfast</TH><TH>Lunch</TH><TH>Dinner</TH></TR><TR>
+<TH>Fruit</TH><TD>Banana</TD><TD>Orange</TD><TD>Apple</TD></TR><TR><T
+H>Meat</TH><TD>Bacon</TD><TD>Baloney</TD><TD>Burger</TD></TR><TR><TH>
+Beverage</TH><TD>Coffee</TD><TD>Soda</TD><TD>Beer</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
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And the hash keys would be:

bob_fruit_breakfast       carol_fruit_breakfast
bob_fruit_lunch           carol_fruit_lunch
bob_fruit_dinner          carol_fruit_dinner
bob_meat_breakfast        carol_meat_breakfast
bob_meat_lunch            carol_meat_lunch
bob_meat_dinner           carol_meat_dinner
bob_beverage_breakfast
bob_beverage_lunch          and so on....
bob_beverage_dinner
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Using the sample code in the HTML::TableExtract documentation I can print the data on the screen:

use HTML::TableExtract;
$te = new HTML::TableExtract (headers=>[qw(Breakfast Lunch Dinner)]);
$te->parse ($html_string);
foreach $ts ($te->tables) {

        foreach $row ($ts->rows) {
          print join(',', @$row), "\n";
               }
}
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but I can't figure out how to store it in a hash. It's obvious to me that @$row contains the data but I haven't been successful in getting it into the hash so that everything lines up, ie. the key "bob_fruit_breakfast" will contain the value "banana", etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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