You'll hear a lot of people around here pushing HTML::TokeParser::Simple.
Now, I'm not knocking it, but it seems to me that a lot of tasks that people want to do are actually more simply solved using HTML::TreeBuilder.

  use HTML::TreeBuilder;

  # given that the HTML to be parsed is in a variable named $html . . 
+.

  # this line extracts the links from the html:
  my $links = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content( $html )->extract_li
+nks;

  # and this iterates over the list of link data, slightly massaging e
+ach one:
  for ( map { [ $_->[0], ( $_->[0] =~ m#://(.*)# ), $_->[1]->as_text ]
+ } @$links )
  {
    # here are the three variables you wanted:
    my( $url, $address, $text ) = @$_;
  }
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