Re^2: Help With Online Table Scraper

[Anonymous Monk]

! defined and $_ = ' ' for @$row;

You maybe mean ! defined and  $_ != ' ' for @$row;   ?

[GrandFather]

No. That wouldn't make any sense at all!

Perhaps I should have gone with my second instinct and written that line as:

for my $cell (@$row) {
    if (! defined $cell) {
        $cell = ' ';
    }
}

I didn't because the fairly trivial task of setting undefined cells to a space becomes the dominant code in the sample. I'd hoped that the line would be pretty much ignored, but in retrospect that was pretty silly really.