G'day jdlev,

"I'm really struggling with ..."

I don't think pasting the first block of code that appears in the SYNOPSIS of the HTML::TableExtract documentation really involves any particular effort. It certainly doesn't equate to struggling!

You're going to need to read and understand the documentation. Blindly copying code, and expecting it to perform whatever task you're thinking of, isn't going to work.

The truth of 

scalar $te->tables

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will tell you whether any tables were found using the supplied headers criteria.

You'll need to explain what you mean by "any legitimate tables". Possibly, the truth of 

scalar @{($te->tables)[0]->rows}

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is what you want.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: HTML::TableExtract - Easy Way To Tell If It Found A Table? by kcott
in thread HTML::TableExtract - Easy Way To Tell If It Found A Table? by jdlev

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