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Id: 6953
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Queue: HTML-TableExtract

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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 1.08
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Subject: Examples in documentation show parse() method; should actually be parse_file().
Using HTML::TableExtract 1.08, HTML::Parser 3.36, Perl v5.8.1-RC3. The documentation includes a number of examples. Each one uses a parse() method to specify the HTML which is to be searched for tables. Problem: there is no such method, either within HTML::TableExtract or its superclass HTML::Parser. The actual method to be invoked is parse_file(), which is part of HTML::Parser. This makes the examples much less useful to the beginning user, especially since nowhere else does the documentation tell how the HTML to be parsed is given to the TableExtract object.