Giving thought to the problem of nested subs I rewrote it as a module and fixed the error. See the new module. And the following is a test script using it. Just enter the table,row,col and it will print out the text. type quit when done.

If anyone else has any suggestions or improvements for the module I would be glad to hear them.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Table;

my  $table   = Table->new;
my $content  = join '', ( <DATA> );

$table->parse_it(\$content);
print "INPUT TABLE,ROW,COL: ";
while (my $inp = <STDIN>){
  chomp $inp;
  last if $inp eq 'quit';
  
  my ($x,$y,$z) = split ',', $inp;
  next unless ($x) && ($y) && ($z);
  print $table->[$x][$y][$z],"\n" if $table->[$x][$y][$z];
  print "INPUT TABLE,ROW,COL: ";
}
__END__
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
  <head><title>tester.html</title></head>

  <body>
  
  <h1>tester.html</h1>
  <TABLE>
    <TR><TD>TABLE 1:ROW 1:COL1</TD><TD>TABLE 1:ROW1:COL2</TD></TR>
    <TR><TD><TABLE><TR><TD>TABLE 2:ROW1:COL1</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD
+>TABLE 1:ROW2:COL2</TD></TR>
    <TR><TD><TABLE><TR><TD><TABLE><TR><TD>TABLE4:ROW1:COL1</TD><TD>TAB
+LE4:ROW1:COL2</TD></TR></TABLE>TABLE3:ROW1:COL1</TD></TR></TABLE></TD
+></TR>
  </TABLE>

  <TABLE>
    <TR><TD>TABLE5:ROW1:COL1</TD><TD>TABLE5:ROW1:COL2</TD></TR>
    <TR><TD>TABLE5:ROW2:COL1</TD></TR>
  </TABLE>
    <hr>
  </body>
</html>

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in thread Using HTML::Parser extract text from tables by zzspectrez

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