Hi Monks, I am trying to learn html parsing with Perl and need some help. I am using http://lawyerlist.com.au/1385-AIM-Legal.aspx and i have saved it on my disk as an html document. And extracting the table at depth => 2 which shows the phone numbers , fax, email etc. The code is as below 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TableExtract;

my $te;
my $ts;
my $html_string;
my $filename='1385-AIM-Legal.aspx.html';
my $row;
my $col;
 open(my $fh, '<', $filename) or die "cannot open file $filename";
    {
        local $/;
        $html_string = <$fh>;
    }
    close($fh);


my $headers = ['Phone'];
$te = HTML::TableExtract->new(depth => 2);

$te->parse($html_string);

foreach $ts ( $te->tables() )
{

    foreach $row ( $ts->rows() )
    {

        print join ( "\t", @$row ), "\n";
    }
}

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This doesn't give me a neat output like the phone numbers don't show proper, email doesn't show at all, address and some other fields have some java scripts in it. I just want to extract the main information and display neatly. Any help would be appreciated. Output of this script is given below: 
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at ./parsehtml.perl line 
+32.
AIM Legal    
Phone    03 9...setTimeout("document.getElementById('Phone1').innerHTM
+L='03 9482 4607'",1000);
Fax    03 9...setTimeout("document.getElementById('Phone2').innerHTML=
+'03 9482 4607'",1000);
Email     var s='=b!isfg>(nbjmup;bjnmfhbmAcjhqpoe/dpn(?bjnmfhbmAcjhqpo
+e/dpn=0b?';var i;for (i=0;i<s.length;i++) document.write( String.from
+CharCode(s.charCodeAt(i)-1));
Street Address     Michael StreetsetTimeout("document.getElementById('
+Address1').innerHTML='14 Michael Street'",1000);
Fitzroy North. VIC 3065

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