Converting HTML table to text using perl

Question

I have a html table content which I am trying to convert it into text with same structure, with the help of use HTML::TreeBuilder and use HTML::FormatText in perl. I have tried with this code

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use HTML::FormatText;
my $raw_html='';
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($raw_html); 
print $tree->format(HTML::FormatText->new);

expected output is:

data1            data1_value

data2            data2_value

data3            data3_value

but the output I get is like:

data1

data1_value

data2

data2_vaue

data3

data3_value

I am in need of some suggestion.

Answer 1

The documentation of HTML::FormatText states "Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented."

So you will need to find another approach. HTML::TableExtract is a likely candidate.