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Re: Using HTML::TableExtract

by sacked (Hermit)
on Jun 18, 2004 at 16:15 UTC ( [id://367983]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Using HTML::TableExtract

The original html output has newlines and multiple spaces in the table header names, so they don't match the headers you specified. Adding the following after retrieving the html corrected the problem: 
$raw_html =~ tr/\n//d;
$raw_html =~ tr/ //s;

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The output is now: 
Table (2,4):
eMap, 2.90, All, August 7, 2003
eTrex, 2.14, All, June 14, 2002
...

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--sacked

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Re^2: Using HTML::TableExtract
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jun 18, 2004 at 16:25 UTC
    Your tr statements can be combined: 
    $raw_html =~ tr/ \n/ /ds;

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