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Well, you can always pre-read the header with an HTML parser -- too many ways to even discuss -- and then pick, either manually, ad hoc... or by setting up a table of headers that *MIGHT* occur that you think you'll want... and then entering your scraping routine.

Yes, I realize choice 1 doesn't automate... and 2 if fraught with possibilities for missing stuff you want.

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Re^4: Retrieving tables using Html:TableExtract
by mecrazycoder (Sexton) on Feb 13, 2012 at 03:53 UTC
    Thank you for your suggestion. Let me try and let you the know the results once I am done.