I'd like to pull the text from some HTML::Element objects which in this case happen to be elements of type 'td' or table divisions. I can "dump" these elements properly, but for the sake of cleanliness I would prefer to just have the text written in these 'td' objects. E.g. 

use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$filename = "websource2.txt";
$tree->parse_file($filename);
@tbodies = $tree->find('tbody');
@tds = @tbodies[0]->find('td');    
@data = @tds[1..6];
foreach(@data){
$_->dump();
}

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... produces the output I expected, but replacing the method call dump() with as_text() or even as_HTML() produces no output or errors. I'm mystified. Any suggestions?

In reply to HTML::Element method as_text() not performing as expected on <td> elements by Anonymous Monk

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