NAME

HTML::TableParser::Grid - Provide access methods to HTML tables by indicating row and column

SYNOPSIS

    use HTML::TableParser::Grid;

    # Assuming that $html represents an HTML table like this:
    # +----+----+-------+
    # | 00 | 01 | 02-12 |
    # +----+----+       |
    # |  10-11  |       |
    # +---------+-------+

    my $parser = HTML::TableParser::Grid->new($html);

    $parser->cell(0,0); # 00
    $parser->cell(0,2); # 02-12
    $parser->cell(1,1); # 10-11

    $parser->row(1);    # qw(10-11 10-11 02-12)

    $parser->column(1); # qw(01 10-11)

    ## Indicates 1 offset
    my $parser = HTML::TableParser::Grid->new($html, 1);

    $parser->cell(1,1); # 00

DESCRIPTION

HTML::TableParser::Grid provides simple methods to access to HTML tables by indicating row and column. This module takes advantage when many rowspans and/or colspans make the table structure complicated.

METHODS

HTML::TableParser::Grid->new($html, [ $offset ])

Creates a new parser object. It is passed a HTML document $html which contains a table, like <table><tr><td> ... </table>. When $html contains more than one table, just the first table is parsed.

If $offset is supplied, the offset of row/column index is specified. Default is zero.

cell($row, $column)

Returns a content of the specified cell.

row($row)

Returns a list of contents in the specified row.

column($column)

Returns a list of contents in the specified column.

num_rows

Returns the number of rows in the table.

num_columns

Returns the number of columns in the table.

_row

SEE ALSO

HTML::TableParser

AUTHOR

Takeru INOUE <takeru.inoue _ gmail.com>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Takeru INOUE <takeru.inoue _ gmail.com>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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cpanm HTML::TableParser::Grid

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install HTML::TableParser::Grid