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Add HTML::TableExtract example
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* Jeffrey Kegler
* Bill Ricker
* Stuart Caie
* and Jeana Clark
* Jeana Clark
* David Precious
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Expand Up @@ -94,6 +94,30 @@ The [XML::Twig](http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Twig) module includes the
but finds local matches.


# HTML::TableExtract

A fairly common requirement when parsing websites is to scrape data from a HTML
table. [HTML::TableExtract](http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-TableExtract)
makes this easy and simple.

Quick example:

my $html = LWP::Simple::get($url);
my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new(
headers => [ 'Date', 'Home Team', 'Away Team', 'Venue' ],
);
$te->parse($html);

for my $row ($te->rows) {
my ($date, $home, $away, $venue) = @$row;
}

The above will find the first table on the page which has the headers mentioned,
and extract each row from it. Looking for the table by the headers means that,
if extra columns are added or columns are moved about, your script will continue
to work perfectly.


# To do

* Code examples
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