It appears that Text::Balanced does not cope with leading non-white space characters that are not balanced tag pairs.

The example below works as advertised. However, put ANY leading character or word in front of the opening <B>, and it ceases working. This doesn't seem terribly useful, unless you know you're parsing complete HTML.

Note that in a list context, a valid parsing returns 6 items. See the docs for which element is which.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Text::Balanced qw (extract_tagged);
use strict;

my $text = "  <B>for</B> some trailing text";
my @a = extract_tagged ($text);

print scalar (@a), "\n";
print "$_\n" for (@a);

exit 0;

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In reply to (jcwren) Re: Text::Balanced woes.. by jcwren
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