..tried to use HTML::Parser, but it was ended up pretty ugly,

What didn't you like with using HTML::Parser ?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use HTML::Parser;

my %inside = ();
my $tbl = -1; my $col; my $row;
my @table = ();

my $p = HTML::Parser->new(
  handlers => {
    start => [ \&start,'tagname' ],
    end   => [ \&end,  'tagname' ],
    text  => [ \&text, 'text' ],      
  }
);
$p->parse_file(\*DATA); # or filename

# output
for my $t (0..$#table){
  print "\nTable $t\n";
  for my $r (0..$#{$table[$t]}){
    my $line = join "\t",$r,@{$table[$t][$r]};
    print "$line\n";
  }
}


sub start {
  my $tag  = shift;
  $inside{$tag} = 1; 
  
  if ($tag eq 'table'){
    ++$tbl; $row = -1;
  } elsif ($tag eq 'tr'){
    ++$row; $col = -1;
  } elsif ($tag eq 'th'){
    ++$col;
    $table[$tbl][$row][$col] = ''; # or undef
  }
} 

sub end {
  my $tag = shift;
  $inside{$tag} = 0;
}

sub text {
  my $str = shift;
  if ( $inside{'th'} ){
    $table[$tbl][$row][$col] = $str;
  }
}

__DATA__
</table></body><body bgcolor="black"><h1>
Summary</h1><table border="1"><tr><th>Employee A</th><th>-0.82</th>
</tr><tr><th>Employee B</th><th>-5.02</th>
</tr><tr><th>Employee C</th><th>19</th>

</tr></table></body><body bgcolor="black"><h1>
Summary</h1><table border="1"><tr><th>Employee A</th><th></th>
</tr><tr><th>Employee B</th><th></th>
</tr><tr><th>Employee C</th><th></th>

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poj

In reply to Re^3: HTML::Parser / Regex by poj
in thread HTML::Parser / Regex by MissPerl

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