By far the most common solution to this is to use one of the HTML modules. Yes, you say that the html is "non-standard" -- but, truth to be told, most HTML out there is, and the HTML-parsing modules know that, and are perfectly able to cope. If they were only able to deal with perfectly syntactic HTML, they'd be called XML-parsing, not HTML-parsing. :)
My personal favorite tool for extracting data from web pages is HTML::TreeBuilder -- in your case, it would be a simple matter of asking for all <td> elements, and grabbing the various answers out of them. You may find the dump method particularly useful in examining what the parser makes of your HTML.
perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
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<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
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<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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