HTML::TreeBuilder

Doug Bales has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I am new to HTML::TreeBuilder. I know you can use $tree->as_text to obtain a string consisting of all the text nodes from this element and its children. My question is: Is there an easy way to obtain a string of just the text at this node and not its children? Thanks, Doug

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Re: HTML::TreeBuilder by integral (Hermit) on Apr 11, 2003 at 16:04 UTC
Use the `$tree->content_list` method and concatenate all the non-element nodes, so get just the text for this element. The full list of methods can be seen in the documentation for HTML::Element. `$text = join '', grep { not ref $_ } $tree->content_list;` [download] -- integral, resident of freenode's #perl	[reply] [d/l] [select]