Grabbing data from an HTML file

Whitey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have the following piece of code that I would like to strip into a flat file and assign variables to the numbers. Can I use perl to strip the date and the values from this code? How do I assign each of the numbers a unique variable?

<table border="1" cellspacing="1" width="449" bordercolor="#000000" he
+ight="60">
  <tr>
    <td width="33%" height="16"><b>Country</b></td>
    <td width="17%" height="16"><b>This Week</b></td>
    <td width="17%" height="16"><b>Last Week</b></td>
    <td width="17%" height="16"><b>Last Month</b></td>
    <td width="17%" height="16"><b>Last Year</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="16"><p align="center"><b>United
    States</b></td>
    <td height="16">
      <p align="center">1266</td>
    <td height="16">
      <p align="center">1278</td>
    <td height="16">
      <p align="center">1275</td>
    <td height="16">
      <p align="center">975</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="10"><p align="center"><b>Canada</b></td>
    <td height="10">
      <p align="center">287</td>
    <td height="10">
      <p align="center">343</td>
    <td height="10">
      <p align="center">322</td>
    <td height="10">
      <p align="center">319</td>
  </tr>
</table>
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Thank you

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Re: Grabbing data from an HTML file by Chmrr (Vicar) on Jul 31, 2001 at 09:42 UTC
Take a gander at HTML::TableExtract -- I think it will suit your needs admirably. perl -e 'print "I love $^X$\"$]!$/"#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'	[reply]
Re: Grabbing data from an HTML file by Whitey (Novice) on Jul 31, 2001 at 09:41 UTC
I mean putting the data into an array. How do I strip the data and put it into an array?	[reply]