i wrote this ugly piece of code for joke, you should write a real parser using HTML::TableExtract as suggested by extremely
for some strange reason it seems to get the work done (sort of) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

open TEXT, 'country_7.html' || die $!;

my $text;

while(<TEXT>) { ## lot of ram...
  chomp;
  $text .= $_;
}

$text =~ s/<\/table.*//;
my @lines = split /<tr>/im, $text;
shift @lines; ## drop trailing html
shift @lines; ## ...and <th>..

foreach my $line (@lines) {
    $line =~ s/<\/tr>//i;
    $line =~ s/<\/td>//gi;
    my @values = split /<td[\sa-zA-Z=]*>/im, $line;
    shift @values;
    print '|';
    foreach my $value (@values) {
        $value =~ s/<\/a>//;
        $value =~ s/&nbsp;//;
        $value =~ s/<a .+>//;
        print $value , "|";
    }
        print "\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Sneeky Snake by cianoz
in thread Sneeky Snake by Anonymous Monk

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