I want to write a Perl script that does two things:

1. Parse a set of HTML pages in different directories recursively and extract all <A HREF=.....> </A> tags into separate text files while maintaining the directory structure. The text files, unique to each html pages/file, have to reside in the same directories as the html pages. (Note that tags/links are to html pages).

2. Use the extracted tags from text files and download the html pages and save them to the respective directories.

I have managed to extract the tags but from and into a single file. The directory and file structure needs to be maintained. So theoretically I would enter the home directory and the script should do the link extraction and download recursively.

Thanks in advance for any tips or previously used code snippets.

Edited 2002-06-20 by mirod: changed title (was: Recursive HTML Tax Extraction) and added formating tags

In reply to Recursive HTML Tag Extraction by khanan

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