This should give you about 75% of what you need : 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use HTML::Parser;

my $parser = HTML::Parser->new(api_version => 3,
                               start_h => [ \&start,"self,tagname,attr
+" ]);

$parser->parse(<<EOFOO);
<P><A HREF="www.url.com"><I>URL Name</I></A><FONT SIZE="+2">Blah
Blah</FONT><A HREF="www.url.com/url/">Another Link</A></P>
EOFOO

for (@{$parser->{urls}})
{
  print "$_->[0]  $_->[1]\n";
}

sub start
{
   my ($self,$tag,$attr) = @_;

   if ( $tag eq 'a' && exists $attr->{href} )
   {
     $self->{_current_url} = $attr->{href};
     $self->handler(text => sub {
                                  my ( $self,$text ) = @_;
                                  
                                  $self->{_current_text} .= $text; 
                                 },
                                 "self, dtext");

     $self->handler( end => \&end,"self, tagname");
     }
}

sub end
{
    my ( $self, $tag ) = @_;
    if ( $tag eq 'a' )
    {
       push @{$self->{urls}},[$self->{_current_url},
       $self->{_current_text}];
       delete $self->{_current_url};
       delete $self->{_current_text};
   
       $self->handler(text => undef);
       $self->handler(end  => undef);
    }
}

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Hope that helps.

/J\

In reply to Re: Getting the Linking Text from a page by gellyfish
in thread Getting the Linking Text from a page by jonjacobmoon

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