I'm reasonably assuming you wanted all of the data in the tables to print to Excel. May I recommend HTML::TreeBuilder instead because of its wonderful "look_down" function, which I have found to be more intuitive to learn and use than HTML::TableContentParser. It matches the tags with the parameters you supply it, and returns all of its children.

For example: 

use HTML::TreeBuilder;

#Parse html content using html-treebuilder:
my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
$root->parse($html);   #from LWP content()
$root->eof();

my @tables = $root->look_down(_tag => 'table');
while (@tables) {
    my $node = shift @tables;
    if (ref $node) {
        unshift @tables, $node->content_list;
    } 
    else {
        print $node."\n";
    }
}
$root = $root->delete;

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This simple example will output much more readable text with all of the relevant information contained within. For a good tutorial see O'Reilly's book on the subject. Also see here for a great tutorial about thinking of HTML as a tree structure.

In reply to Re: need help to extract table form html by whakka
in thread need help to extract table form html by yusy

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