#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$inputfile="test.htm";
$outputfile=">outfile2.html";
$numofTables=1;


open(INFILE, $inputfile) or die ("no file $inputfile");
$filesize = -s INFILE;
read(INFILE, $thispage, $filesize);
close(INFILE);

#this removes anypage breaks
$thispage=~s/<BR>/ /g;
$thispage=~s/<\/BR>/ /g;


@myarray=split("\s", $thispage);
open(OUTFILE, $outputfile);


$start=0;
foreach(@myarray){
#this is not to clean but the ASP that wrote the HTML 
#put the table tags and script tags on their own line
    if(($_ =~ m/<TABLE/)||($_ =~ m/<SCRIPT/))
    {
        $start++;
    }
    if($start<=$numofTables){
    print OUTFILE "$_\s";
    }
    if($_ =~ m/<\/TABLE>/)
    {
        $start--;
        print OUTFILE "</TR><TR>\n<TD>";
    }elsif($_ =~ m/<\/SCRIPT>/){
        $start--;
    }
} 



close(OUTFILE);

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