perl -e "use LWP::Simple; getprint('http://www.nasdaq.com/extended-trading/premarket-mostactive.aspx')" >> nasdaq-stocks.txt 

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AMRI	$13.53	$14.75	9.02%	6,984
AUPH	$6.59	$7.07	7.28%	632,035
ATEC	$2.19	$2.30	5.02%	3,880
SBLK	$12.13	$12.71	4.78%	10,123
OCLR	$8.95	$9.29	3.80%	147,875
FRSH	$5.79	$6	3.63%	6,100
KTOS	$7.88	$8.16	3.55%	6,901
INCY	$135.5	$139.75	3.14%	6,734
TVIX	$35.4	$36.45	2.97%	234,847
OSUR	$12.3	$12.65	2.85%	4,500
 
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use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TableExtract;

#Get HTML file and set up headers for HTML::TableExtract
my $doc = 'nasdaq-stocks.txt';
my $headers = ['Symbol', 'Last Sale*', 'Change Net / %', 'Share Volume'];
#table 4 is advances.  Need to do again for 5 decliners
my $table_extract = HTML::TableExtract->new(count => 4, headers => $headers);  

#parse the nasdaq-stocks.txt file and print to outup-temp.txt file
#?? found this code.  
#Is the code below taking HTML loaded in string $table and 
#breaking into rows to print to a file???

$table_extract->parse_file($doc);
my ($table) = $table_extract->tables;
open (UPFILE, '>outup-temp.txt');
	for my $row ($table->rows) {
    	print UPFILE @$row, "\n";
}
close(UPFILE);

#tried to add the Substitutes below to the loop above 
#but failed miserably
#.. am taking outup-temp.txt 
#and load the array @lines for removing junk in the loop below

my $filename = 'outup-temp.txt' ;
open my $fh , '<' , $filename or die "Cannot read '$filename': $!\n" ;
my @lines = <$fh> ;
close $fh ;

# process the array @lines and remove some of the junk
for ( @lines ) {
  s/^\s+// ; # No need for global substitution
  s/[\x0A\x0D]{3,}/\t/g; # 3 CR LF become a tab

#double tab-change to one tab - never got this to work??
# s/[\x09]{2,}/\t/g; 

  s/\$//g; # Substitute all dollar signs with nothing
  s/\x20/\t/g; # space becomes a tab
# Change chars between open and change pct to tab
  s/\xC2\xA0\xE2\x96\xB2\xC2\xA0/\t/; 
}

#write cleaned lines to outup-temp.txt
open $fh , '>' , $filename or die "Cannot write '$filename': $!\n" ;
print $fh @lines ;
close $fh ;

# now that we have some tab delimiters, use split to break out the 
# fields and calculate the closing price, then write to file
my $stock;
my $filler1;
my $openpr;
my $change;
my $pct;
my $vol;
my $filler2;
my $closepr;

open (FILE, 'outup-temp.txt');
open STDOUT, '>', "outup.txt";
while (<FILE>) {
 	chomp;
	($stock,$filler1,$openpr,$change,$pct,$vol,$filler2) = split("\t");
        #calculate closing price from prior day for advancers
	$closepr = $openpr-$change; 
        #add back $ signs - print tab delimited fields to file
	print "$stock\t\$$closepr\t\$$openpr\t$pct\t$vol\n"; 
}
close(FILE);
close (STDOUT);