in reply to using HTML::TreeBuilder effectively

Hello Datz_cozee75,

(1) When I enter http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/tc/ — or even just http://dailynews.yahoo.com — into Google Chrome, I get:

This web page is not available
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
...
The server at dailynews.yahoo.com can't be found because the DNS look-up failed....

Looks as though the web address has changed to http://news.yahoo.com/?

(2) Is there a question 2?

(3) Within the call to map, each element of the array @links is in turn aliased to $_ (see map). @links was previously initialised via a call to get_headlines(), which returns the elements in @out. The latter is populated by this line:

push @out, [ $link->attr('href'), $link->as_text ];

which creates an anonymous array containing two elements, and pushes a reference to it onto the array @out (see perlreftut). So, within the map, $_->[0] is the first element of the anonymous array currently referenced by $_, and $_->[1] is the second element.

(4) Sorry, I don’t know how to get just the headlines from http://news.yahoo.com/.

Anyway, hope that helps,

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