You might want to save the the current table number in @save as well, to be able to handle tables that have both other tables and text inside. To do this, you could apply these changes: At the top: 
my $tablenr=0;

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In _start: 
if ($tag eq 'table'){
      push @save, [$tablenr,$row,$column];
      $row = $column = 0;
      $tablenr=$count;
      ++$count;
      $in_table++;
    }

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In _end: 
if ($tag eq 'table') {
      ($tablenr, $row, $column) = @{ pop @save };
      --$in_table;
}

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In Text: 
$table[$tablenr][$row][$column] .= $text if ($in_table) && ($text !~ m
+/^\s+$/);

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You might want to add an initialization of @save as well, to avoid trying to der eference an undefined value when you leave a toplevel table. Something like this perhaps: 
my @save=([]); #initialize with an empty list as first element.

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Regards, GoldClaw

In reply to Re: Using HTML::Parser extract text from tables by goldclaw
in thread Using HTML::Parser extract text from tables by zzspectrez

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