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HTML

<table>
   <tr>
       <td>some data I don't want.</td>
       <td>
       <table><tr><td>more data I don't want</td></tr></table>
       Text I want to extract here.
       </td>
   </tr>
</table>

JavaScript

$('tr > td:eq(1) > table').remove();
alert( $('tr > td:eq(1)').text());