Hi Guys, Im trying to parse html and capture only the body excluding the body tags,, Now below is the code ive come up with , borrowed from another post actaully, but what im trying to do in the start, text and end handlers is assign the text to a new varible with no luck, if i print my varible in each sub routine it prints but outside of that its empty .. any idea on how else I could capture this data ? 

my $p = HTML::Parser->new( api_version => 3 );
$p->handler( start => \&start_handler, "self,tagname,attr" );
$p->parse($content);
exit;

my $inner_body;
sub start_handler {
    my $self = shift;
    my $tagname  = shift;
    my $attr = shift;
    my $text = shift;
    my $inner_body;
    return unless ( $tagname eq 'body' );
    $self->handler( start => sub {  my ($text) = @_;        $inner_bod
+y = $inner_body. $text; }, "text" );
    $self->handler( text =>  sub {  my ($text) = @_; $inner_body = $in
+ner_body. $text; }, "text" );
    $self->handler( end  => sub {
        my ($endtagname, $self, $text) = @_;
            if($endtagname eq $tagname) {
                    $self->eof;
            } else {
                $inner_body = $inner_body. $text;
            }
        }, "tagname,self,text");
}

 print $inner_body;

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In reply to html::parse inner body html by SneakZa

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