Hi there, i have the below html code from a page and i would like to extract the title and the price, but it is taking me so long.
This is the sample of the html file i am parsing: 
 <td width="135px"> <a href="google.com" title="Please help " class="p
+roduct-image"><img src="google.com/blabla.jpg" width="135" height="18
+0" alt="Please help " /></a></td>
                    <td valign="top">
                    <div class="category-description">
                    <h2 class="product-name"><a href="google.com" titl
+e="Please help ">Please help </a></h2>
                    <strong>Doodle Thomson </strong> <br/>
                    
                    At a time when many people are attempting to relat
+e current events and trends in the world to interpretations of the pr
+ophecies contained in the Book of Revelations, and the writings of No
+stradamus, and the predictions of fashionable clairvoyants, the autho
+r does much the same                    </div>
                    </td>
                    <td width="30%">
                        <div class="categoty_price">
                        
                               

                
    <div class="price-box">
                                                            <span clas
+s="regular-price" id="product-price-1139">
                                            <span class="price">$20.00
+</span>                                    </span>

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I need the title (Please help) and the price ($20.00). It is a long html file with many more of these.
Please help. This is the code that i have so far but failing me... 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

if (@ARGV != 1 ) { die "./quick.book.parsing.pl <html file>\n";}

#open html file

open(HTML,$ARGV[0]) || die "Couldn't open file $ARGV[0]\n";
while (my $html = <HTML>)
{
        next if $html =~ /<button/;
        chomp $html;
        if ($html =~m/title="(.*)" class/g)
        {
                my @columns =~ split (/\"/, $html);
                print "$columns[5]";
        }
}




#{
#       next if $html =~ /<button/;
#       chomp $html;
#       if ($html=~ m/title="(.*)" class/g)
#{
#       $columns[5] =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
#       print "$columns[5]---";
#}
#
#       if ($html=~ m/<span class="price">(.*)<\/span>/g)
#{
#       $html =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
#       print "$html\n";
#}
#}

close HTML;

exit;

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In reply to How can i have the titles and the prices? by faozhi

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