It is not entirely clear what you want to do, but if you need to extract the values of the first cell in TRs which class name starts with 'violet', then you could use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
 
use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new; # empty tree
$tree->parse_file( 'myfile.html');

my @values= $tree->findvalues( '//tr[@class=~/^violet[0-9]/]/td[1]');

foreach my $value (@values) { print $value, "\n"; }

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In reply to Re: parsing html by mirod
in thread parsing html by paola82

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