Darn! You beat me to it! Here is what I came up with, using HTML::TokeParser, using Perl & LWP as a reference:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use HTML::TokeParser;

$/="\n\n";

while( my $html=<DATA>)
  { my $author= get_author( $html);
    print "Author: $author\n";
  }
exit;

sub get_author
  { my $html= shift;
    my $stream= HTML::TokeParser->new( \$html);
    while( my $token= $stream->get_token)
      { my $token_type= shift @$token;
        next unless $token_type eq 'S';
        my( $tag, $attribute_hashref, $attribute_order_arrayref, $sour
+ce)= @$token;
        next unless $tag eq 'meta';
        if( grep { m{\.author$} } values %$attribute_hashref)
          { return $attribute_hashref->{content}; }
      }
    return 'unknown';
  }

__DATA__
<html>
  <head>
    <META NAME="HTML.author" CONTENT="Joe Smith">
    <META NAME="whatever" CONTENT="foo">
  </head>
  <body><p>dummy</p></body>
</html>

<html>
  <head><meta name="Company.HTML.author" content="Carl Jones"></head>
  <body><p>dummy</p></body>
</html>

<html>
  <head><META NAME="web.author" CONTENT="Mike Simmons"></head>
  <body><p>dummy</p></body>
</html>

<html>
  <head>
    <META NAME="whatever" CONTENT="foo">
  </head>
  <body><p>dummy</p></body>
</html>

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In reply to Re: Re: Fetching meta tag info by mirod
in thread Fetching meta tag info by Anonymous Monk

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