#!/usr/bin/perl -w require 5.004; use strict; use HTML::TokeParser; use Data::Dumper; my $doc = shift or &usage; my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new($doc) || die "Can't open: $!"; my @data; # walk through document and get each tag while (my $token = $p->get_tag) { my $tag = $token->[0]; if ( $tag eq 'td' ) { # get_text until a closing 'td' is found push @data, $p->get_trimmed_text( "/td" ); } } print Dumper \@data; sub usage { print "\ttest.pl some.html"; exit; }