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The short answer is yes, you can. I don't use the exact parsing utilities that you are using, but I routinely WWW::Mechanize and parse the content

Something like the following should work for you. NOTE: I did not test this exact code

use HTML::TableExtract;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.
+13)Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 0, agent = $user_agent );
if ( $mech->success ) {
    my $html_string = $mech->content;
    my $headers = ['col1', 'col2', 'col3', 'col4', 'col5'];
    my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( headers => $headers );
    my @tables = $te->parse($html_string)->tables;
}
...
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lbe

In reply to Re: about retrieving and parsing html without writing on disk by learnedbyerror
in thread about retrieving and parsing html without writing on disk by limner

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