This is the code I use. The HTML file has the data in three tables, so I simply push everything between TD tags into the array. 
$td_switch=0;
open(DAT, $data_file)|| die("Could not open file!");
    while (<DAT>){
        if ($td_switch){
            if (m/.*?<\/td>.*$/i){
                ($extract_rest, $_) = /(.*?)<\/td>(.*)$/i;
                $td_switch = 0;
                $extract .= "\n" . $extract_rest;
                push (@parsed_data, $extract);
                #print "$_\n\n";
            }else{
                ($extract_rest) = /(.*?)$/i;
                $extract .= "\n" . $extract_rest;
            }
        }
        
        while (m/<td.*?>.*?<\/td>/i){
            ($extract, $_) = /.*?<td.*?>(.*?)<\/td>(.*)$/i;
            push (@parsed_data, $extract);
            #print "$_\n\n";
        }
        if (m/<td.*?>/i){
            ($extract) = /.*<td.*?>(.*)$/i;
            $_ = "";
            $td_switch = 1;
            #print "$_\n\n";
        }
    }
close(DAT);

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