Convert Table to an Array

Question

I have seen many posts about how to turn an array into a table, but not nearly as many going the other way. I\'m looking to take a table like this:

Answer 1

There's a good tool: $(table).map, but saldly, it always return flatten array, no matter how many nested .map() is inside (you need two: one for rows and one for cells).

So let's use jQuery.map for tables and tr's and object.map() for cells, having 2nd nesting level return an array

function t2a (tabble){
return $.map($(tabble),function(el,i) {
    return $.map($(el).find('tr'),function(el,i) {
        return [
            $(el).find('td').map(function() {
                return $(this).text();
            }).get()
        ];
    });
});
}