in reply to get the text from a cell in a Tk Table

You put a LabEntry widget into the table at 2, 2 so you get a LabEntry widget back. You need to call the LabEntry widget's get to get the data it contains:

my $THE_STUFF_THAT_IS_IN_BOX_2_2=$table->get(2,2)->get ();

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Re^2: get the text from a cell in a Tk Table
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2012 at 15:49 UTC
    I feel it should be... 
    my $THE_STUFF_THAT_IS_IN_BOX_2_2 = 
                          $table->get(2,2)-> cget('-text');

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