in reply to parse html for specific things

This looks like JSON not HTML.

use JSON; # imports encode_json, decode_json, to_json and from_json. # simple and fast interfaces (expect/generate UTF-8) $perl_hash_or_arrayref = decode_json $utf8_encoded_json_text;

Cheers Rolf
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