So, I don't understand why $cell->as_text gives the data, when Dumper \@cells prints a giant ton of garbage. Also, even though I have specified the table element as

my @tables = $tree->findnodes('//table');
my $table = $tables[12];
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I cant reference this directly. Printing @cells[2]->as_text fails outright with "can't call method 'as_text' on an undefined value". It is clearly in there as

my @cells = $row->findnodes('td')
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.... Anything I do to @cells flat out fails except for looking through with the mentioned

for my $cell (@cells)...
print $cell->as_text
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At this junction, I am about to totally give up on this, since I do not understand this at all and have no other way I can parse this otherwise. Since as_text dumps this one entry at a time, I was hoping to process the even elements of @cells as host/ip address and the odd as the previous elements port. But I just don't get this at all.

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