use strict; use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath; my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new; #use real file name here open(my $fh, "<", "file.html") or die $!; $tree->parse_file($fh); my ($name) = $tree->findnodes(qq{/html/body/table/tr[1]/td[2]}); print $name->as_text;