Hello there, am pretty newish to perl,mainly have a java background, so do let me know if I'm missing something completely obvious.

I have been looking at various examples to try to get them to work, but so far haven't been able to get any using parse_file to work, only managed to get one working, but it was using parse() for parsing a html string.

For more background, I'm on windows 64 bit, and using strawberry perl, and I did install all the prerequisites for html::tableextract thru cpan. If possible, what I'd love is for an example of extracting table data from a html file already saved locally, and I should hopefully be able to fumble my way around from there.

Essentially, what I need to do is to extract some Table rows from a html file thats saved on my computer. And my apologies for the pretty horribly formatted post, and thanks for having a look!

edit: can't seem to post in the thread, probably doing something wrong.

aitap: This is part of the file I'll be parsing (it's pretty horribly formatted, and there are empty td tags sometimes.) 

            <tr>                            <td>2012/07/30</td>
                            <td><a
href="http://www.zone-h.org/archive/special=1/notifier=Dg4nx">Dg4nx</a
+></td>
                            <td>H</td>
                            <td></td>
                            <td><a
href="http://www.zone-h.org/archive/domain=www.bauan.gov.ph">R</a></td
+>
                                                        <td><img src="
+../../images/cflags/png/us.png" alt="United States" title="United Sta
+tes"></td>
                            <td><img src="../../images/star.gif" borde
+r="0"></td>
                            <td>www.bauan.gov.ph
                            </td>
                            <td>Linux</td>
                            <td><a
href="http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/18160940">mirror</a></td>
                        </tr>

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As to examples, one I'm trying is http://search.cpan.org/~msisk/HTML-TableExtract-2.10/lib/HTML/TableExtract.pm but I seem to be missing something. I keep seeing a "can't call method "tree" on an undefined value at line 5" error when using this code from the TableExtracts examples(I have tried parsing in a html file $html_file = "page1.html"; , but it doesn't seem to be working)

 use HTML::TableExtract qw(tree);
 $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( headers => [qw(Date Notifier H M R L D
+omain OS View)] );
 $te->parse_file($html_file);
 $table = $te->first_table_found;
 $table_tree = $table->tree;
 $table_html = $table_tree->as_HTML;
 $table_text = $table_tree->as_text;
 $document_tree = $te->tree;
 $document_html = $document_tree->as_HTML;

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(My input likely won't fit this, but I'm just trying to get an example working to start with, I know I'm missing something, but not quite sure what.

influx: I'll give that a shot, thanks. appreciate the responses!

In reply to Queries on HTML::TableExtract - How to parse from saved html file by howdoesitwork

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