Recommend to use a different HTML::Parser method. get_tag is attractive, but insufficient for your task. The following rips through grabbing all URLs. If it encounters an ignore comment tag as shown, it will rip through until it gets to an anchor end tag.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use HTML::TokeParser;

my $sample_HTML = 
  "<a href=\"http://www.foobar1.com/\">link 1</a> " .
  "<!--ignore--><a href=\"http://www.foobar2.com/\">link 2</a> " .
  "<a href=\"http://www.foobar3.com/\">link 3</a> ";

my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new( \$sample_HTML );
my $token;
my $link_count = 1;

while( $token = $p->get_token() ) {
  if( $token->[0] eq 'S' && 
      $token->[1] eq 'a' )
  {
    my $text = $token->[2]->{'href'};
    print "Found link $link_count: $text\n";
    $link_count++;
  }
  if( $token->[0] eq 'C' &&
      $token->[1] eq '<!--ignore-->' )
  {
    while ( $token->[0] ne 'E' &&
            $token->[1] ne 'a' )
    {
       $token = $p->get_token();
    }
  }
}

__output___

%perl ignore_some.pl

Found link 1: http://www.foobar1.com/
Found link 2: http://www.foobar3.com/

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In reply to (ichimunki) Re: Skipping HTML tags with HTML::TokeParser by ichimunki
in thread Skipping HTML tags with HTML::TokeParser by patgas

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