use strict; use warnings; use HTML::TokeParser::Simple; use Data::Dumper; my $parser = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new('foo.html'); my $level = 0; my @div; while ( my $token = $parser->get_token ) { if ($token->is_start_tag('div')) { push @{$div[$level]}, $token->return_attr->{id}; $level++; } elsif ($token->is_end_tag('div')) { $level--; } } # print all div's found for my $row (@div) { print "level ", ++$level, " div's:\n"; print "\t$_\n" for @{$row}; } # print first outer level div found print "the first div found had id '", $div[0][0], "'\n";