in reply to Extracting ALT text from image links

For completeness sake ... this time using HTML::Parser:

use HTML::Parser; $p = HTML::Parser->new( api_version => 3, start_h => [\&start, "tagname, attr"], end_h => [\&end, "tagname"], marked_sections => 1, ); { my $in_link = 0; sub start { my($tagname, $attr) = @_; if ($tagname eq 'a') { $in_link = 1; } elsif ($in_link and $tagname eq 'img' and exists $attr->{alt +}) { print "IMG: $attr->{src} = $attr->{alt}\n"; } } sub end { $in_link = 0 if ($_[0] eq 'a'); } } $p->parse('sadf dsfg<a href="foo.html"><iMg src="foo.gif" alt="blah">< +/a> <img src="bar.gif" alt="nenene"> sdf'); $p->eof();

  Jenda