It would be more appropriate to use the id attribute to identify individual elements within html. 
<table>
   <tr id="row_1">
      <td id="row_1_col_1">
        stuff
      </td>
      <td id=row_1_col_2">
        stuff
      </td>
   </tr>
   <tr id="row_2>
...
</table>

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HTML::Parser would provide an attributes string which would include the attribute id="row_1_col2" which could in turn be used to build your own hash. As HTML::TableExtract is built on HTML::Parser , the attributes may be available.

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In reply to Re: Extract hidden values from HTML by Utilitarian
in thread Extract hidden values from HTML by kalyanrajsista

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