I'm new to using HTML::TableExtract and using the sample code from the docs it works beautifully however I've run into a few holdups.

I started using the headers=>["Date","Location"] The problem I've run into is that the actual HTML looks like this:

<TABLE>
<TR><TD colspan="2">Date</TD><TD>Location</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>1.</TD><TD>Apr. 26</TD><TD>San Francisco, CA</TD></TR>...
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So I get the number and not the date back from the parse as a result of the colspan="2"

My other problem is that there are HREF's in some of the other columns I'm extracting. I want to get the url that the link is pointing to and not just the link text. Is there any simple way of getting around this?

Thanks,

Joel