Hands-on HTML Table Parser/Matrix?

[robert]

Often I want to extract some web table contents. Formats are 
mostly static, simple text & numbers in it, other tags to be 
stripped off. So a simple & fast approach would be ok.

What of the different modules around is most easy to use, stable, 
up-to-date, iterator access or best matrix-access (without need 
for callback functions,classes.. for basic tasks)?


Robert