First, let me apology for being so scarce lately. I have been unable to visit PM lately, and feel a little guilty for returning with what is probably a silly question.

I am trying to use HTML::Parser to extract some very specific links from a page but I also need to know what the text is from each link.

So, if a link is Foo, I want to be able to know that "Foo" corresponds to the url is links to. This has got to be easy, but it is late and my brain is numb.

I am using HTML::Parse to get the tags. Here is some code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use lib "/home/jon/perl"; # where BrowserEmulator is

use HTML::Parser;
use BrowserEmulator;  # this gets all the text from the page

my @SSNB;

# start of ParseLink
{
  package ParseLink;
  our @ISA = qw(HTML::Parser);

  # called by parse
  sub start
    {
      my ($this, $tag, $attr) = @_;

      if ($tag eq "a")
    {
      $this->{links}{$attr->{href}} = 1;
    }
    }

  sub get_links
    {
      my $this = shift;
      return keys %{$this->{links}};
    }
}

my $test_url = shift;

my $string = &BrowserEmulator::getFullSource($test_url);

my $p = ParseLink->new;
$p->parse($string);

for ($p->get_links)
  {
       print "LINK: $_\n";
  }

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I admit it, I am Paco.

In reply to Getting the Linking Text from a page by jonjacobmoon

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