#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use HTML::Parser; my %inside = (); my $tbl = -1; my $col; my $row; my @table = (); my $p = HTML::Parser->new( handlers => { start => [ \&start,'tagname' ], end => [ \&end, 'tagname' ], text => [ \&text, 'text' ], } ); $p->parse_file(\*DATA); # or filename # output for my $t (0..$#table){ print "\nTable $t\n"; for my $r (0..$#{$table[$t]}){ my $line = join "\t",$r,@{$table[$t][$r]}; print "$line\n"; } } sub start { my $tag = shift; $inside{$tag} = 1; if ($tag eq 'table'){ ++$tbl; $row = -1; } elsif ($tag eq 'tr'){ ++$row; $col = -1; } elsif ($tag eq 'th'){ ++$col; $table[$tbl][$row][$col] = ''; # or undef } } sub end { my $tag = shift; $inside{$tag} = 0; } sub text { my $str = shift; if ( $inside{'th'} ){ $table[$tbl][$row][$col] = $str; } } __DATA__

Summary

Employee A	-0.82
Employee B	-5.02
Employee C	19

Summary

Employee A
Employee B
Employee C