in reply to Merging two anchors with HTML::TreeBuilder

forget about "splice", detach/delete/remove the tag you dont want, and push_content to the tag you want, or replace it with a new tag (replace_with )

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Re^2: Merging two anchors with HTML::TreeBuilder
by Anonymous Monk on May 10, 2016 at 06:26 UTC
    HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath with htmltreexpather.pl makes it easier to find what you want, like the second link in each tablecell 
    use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

#~ my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;


for my $secondlink ( $root->findnodes( '//td/a[2]' ) ){
    my $td      = $secondlink->parent;
    my $newtext = $td->as_trimmed_text ;
    $secondlink->delete_content;
    $secondlink->push_content( $newtext ) ;
    $secondlink->detach;
    $td->delete_content;
    $td->push_content(  $secondlink );
}

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      Thanks, both. I've gone with the HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath option.

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