my $url3="http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/blah/blah"; my $content=get $url3; #### for my $td (@tds){ my $bold = $td->look_down(_tag => q{b}); # look for a bold tag next unless $bold; my $txt = $bold->as_text; if ($txt=~ m/miR|let/){ print $txt, qq{\n}; # if there is one print the text } }