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I have to believe this has been done many time before.

We have a well formed html <table> which contains X rows with Y
columns in each. Nice and regular...

Each <td> however contains mutliple chunks of data. Data in these
cells is delimited by a <br />
but could be anything I guess.

We need to take this table and regenerate it so that each data chunk
has it's own row.

For example

<table>
<tr>
<td>item01</td>
<td>item<br />item< br/>item</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>item03<br/></td>
<td>item<br /></td>
</tr>

would result in

<table>
<tr>
<td>item01</td>
<td>item</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>item01</td>
<td>item</td>
</tr>
<td>item01</td>
<td>item</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>item03 .....

.... and so on.

We could code this. but this has to be some kind of module (with
normal good module stuff). Is there something out there

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<fc1532dd-a45c-482d-b88a->,
okey <> wrote:

> I have to believe this has been done many time before.
>
> We have a well formed html <table> which contains X rows with Y
> columns in each. Nice and regular...
>
> Each <td> however contains mutliple chunks of data. Data in these
> cells is delimited by a <br />
> but could be anything I guess.
>
> We need to take this table and regenerate it so that each data chunk
> has it's own row.
>
> For example
>
> <table>
......
>
> ... and so on.
>
> We could code this. but this has to be some kind of module (with
> normal good module stuff). Is there something out there

There is the HTML::TableExtractor module, which will help you with
extracting the table info. Reformatting is then up to you. Breaking out
rows in an HTML table seems a little too specialized to have a module
already written, but who knows?

--
Jim Gibson