I have some code that alters A HREF tags/attributes inside an html document, and displays the results. I have it working fine, but there's a part where I'm sure there's an easier way to do it:

I have the code: 

my $tag;
if($change){ #contruct modified tag
  # Wow this is ugly
  $tag = '<'.$token->[1].' '.join(' ',map({"$_ = '".$token->[2]{$_}."'
+"} keys(%{$token->[2]}))).'>';
} else {  #output original tag
  # This is nice
  $tag = $token->[0] eq "T" ? $token->[1] : $token->[-1]; 
}

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where $token is an HTML::TokeParser token for a starting A tag that contains an HREF attribute (otherwise $change is not set)

Outputting unchanged tags is so elegant (idiom relayed to me by ChemBoy), surely there's a nicer way to convert a token I modify back into HTML? Thanks in advance.

In reply to Rebuilding changed tags with HTML::TokeParser by swiftone

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