С этими двумя подходами вы бы предпочли: пытаться найти правильные типы данных или просто использовать всегда varchar?
# ...
use HTML::TableExtract;
my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( headers => [ 'some headers', 'one', 'two' ], keep_headers => 1 );
$te->parse( $html_string );
die $te->tables if $te->tables != 1;
( my $grid ) = $te->tables;
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect( ... ) or die $DBI::errstr;
my $table = 'my_test_table';
my @rows = $grid->rows;
my $header_row = shift @rows;
##### version 1 ####
use Data::Types qw(:all);
my @create_row;
for my $col ( 0 .. $#$header_row ) {
my ( $count, $int, $float ) = ( 0, 0, 0 );
my $longest = 0;
for my $row ( @rows ) {
$longest = length $row->[$col] if length $row->[$col] > $longest;
$int++ if is_int( $row->[$col] );
$float++ if is_float( $row->[$col] );
$count++;
}
if ( $int == $count ) {
$create_row[$col] = $dbh->quote( $header_row->[$col] ) . ' int';
}
elsif ( $float == $count ) {
$create_row[$col] = $dbh->quote( $header_row->[$col] ) . ' float';
}
else {
$create_row[$col] = $dbh->quote( $header_row->[$col] ) . " char($longest)";
}
}
$sql = sprintf "CREATE TABLE $table ( %s )",
join( ', ', @create_row );
$dbh->do( $sql );
$sql = sprintf "INSERT INTO $table ( %s ) VALUES( %s )",
join( ',', map { $dbh->quote( $_ ) } @$header_row ), join( ',', ('?') x @$header_row );
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql );
#### version 2 ####
# always varchar
$sql = sprintf "CREATE TABLE $table ( %s )",
join( ', ', map { "'$_' varchar(60)" } @$header_row );
$dbh->do( $sql );
$sql = sprintf "INSERT INTO $table ( %s ) VALUES( %s )",
join( ',', map { $dbh->quote( $_ ) } @$header_row ), join( ',', ('?') x @$header_row );
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql );