> his will set $date to undef and might produce a warning.

this would surprise me 

  DB<71> use warnings; $a=(1..2)[9]

  DB<72>

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> so you might want to use eval: my $date = eval { $d->content->[1] }

Thats why the use is of ->content is discouraged and ->content_array_ref is offered

$content_array_ref = $h->content_array_ref(); # never undef

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"This is like content (with all its caveats and deprecations) except that it is guaranteed to return an array reference."

> (All code obviously untested.)

dito! :)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: HTML::Element accessing "internal attributes" the proper way by LanX
in thread HTML::Element accessing "internal attributes" the proper way by cormanaz

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