Hello all

I'm trying to extract data from HTML Tables.

If I've specified the headers in object creation, do I need to mention 

$ts[0]->rows

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explicitly

or is there any otherway to get the data, since I'm trying to match only one table with the headers specified...

use strict;
use HTML::TableExtract;

#Content contains actual HTML code extracted from webpage
my $content;

# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#Please assume that content has some data
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new(headers => ['Name', 'Place', 'Country
+', 'Telephone']);

my @ts = $te->parse($content)->tables;

my @data = $ts[0]->rows;

print Dumper(@data);

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$VAR1 = [
          'Justin',
          'California',
          undef,
          '12345'
        ];
$VAR2 = [
          'Catherine',
          'Texas',
          'USA',
          '2419422'
        ];

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Am I doing anything wrong

In reply to Extract HTML data by kalyanrajsista

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