Possible Array in PHP

I have some data that I have extracted, stripped out unneeded characters
and I was wondering if somehow I could define the rest of it as an array.
I am using PHP v 5.6.25
The stripped out data consist of 5 rows and each row contains 7 cells.
My first thought was grab each <tr></tr> section, finding the position of first <td> and then it's corresponding ending </td> and looping thru each <td> cell.
I would save the position of the previous ending </td> so be starting point of next cycle.
But I was wondering if I could define the <td></td> cells as an array - would be a heck of alot easier to extract the data
Below is what a section looks like and it is the same thru out table.
Maybe use eplode function first to redefine as an array ??

<tr>
<td >blah<br>blah blah</td>
<td >229939</td>
<td >09/06/2019</td>
<td >23.00</td>
<td >0.00</td>
<td ><br></td>
<td >23.00</td>
<td >more info</td>
</tr>

Any thoughts would help. I can do it the long way but it would be nice to have a short cut...and more effective and efficient,
thank you...