I'm using the following bit of code to list out all the links in an HTML page, but I'd like it to ignore <a> tags that are immediately preceded by something like <!--ignore-->.

So <a href="http://perlmonks.org"> would get listed, but <!--ignore--><a href="http://perlmonks.org"> would not. Any suggestions?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use HTML::TokeParser;

-e $ARGV[0] or die "File does not exist: $ARGV[0]\n";

my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new( shift );

while ( my $token = $p->get_tag("a")) {
    my $url = $token->[1]{href} || "-";
    my $text = $p->get_trimmed_text("/a");
    print "$url\n";
}

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In reply to Skipping HTML tags with HTML::TokeParser by patgas

Title:
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