Sorry to be dense, but what is $obj in your example? I can't figure out why the "print Dumpfile..." clearly prints a text object but trying to save the returned object from Dumpfile gets me an empty value.

I have attached a short program which calls this in case anyone wants to try running it...

Thanks for the help 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use htmltoascii;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $url = 'https://archive.nrao.edu/archive/ArchiveRouter?SCAN_FILE_ID
+S=181828362';
my $content = get($url);
my $ascii = &htmltoascii::convert($content);
print "test is $ascii\n";

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where I have changed the "convert" sub to:


sub convert {
    my $html = shift;
    
    my $t = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
    $t->parse($html);
    $t->eof;
    
    my $obj = DumpTable( $_ ), $/, $/ 
    for $t->find_by_tag_name('table') ;
    return($obj);
}

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In reply to Re^2: odd text object problem - how to store as string? by emmiesix
in thread odd text object problem - how to store as string? by emmiesix

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