Greetings avout, I'm trying to extract the subject (between the h3 tags) in the following example using Web::Query. No matter what I try $subject is always undefined. What have I missed? UPDATE: find 'h3' returns the author text, but I want to get the h3 in the subject class. I tried .subject.div.h3 but still undef. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Web::Query; # libweb-query-perl
use Data::Dumper;

my $testhtml ='
<html><head></head>
<body>
   <div class="author"
      <div><h3>Neil Watson</h3></div>
   </div>
   <div class="subject">
      <div><h3>@if version_after macro is illogical</h3></div>
   </div>
</body>
</html>
';

my $parts = Web::Query->new_from_html( $testhtml );
my $subject = $parts->find( 'h3' )->text;
# How to find the subject between h3 tags?

#print "parts ".Dumper( $parts );
print "subjectfinal ".Dumper( $subject );

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Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

In reply to Getting content using Web::Query by neilwatson

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