In trying to rewrite it to satisfy my sense of Fewer Indentation Levels Are Better, I rephrased the loop like this: 
    while(defined(my $t = $p->get_token())){
        print(TEMPO $t->as_is), next
            unless $t->is_tag('a');

        my $attr = $t->return_attr;
        print(
            "\nHREF TAG-->[",
            ++$hrefCount,
            "]-->",
           $attr->{href},
           "\n\n"
        ) if exists $attr->{href};
    }

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Doing so it occured to me it will discard A NAME too - and fixing that is not entirely trivial as you need to keep track of whether the start tag was dropped or kept when you come across a closing /A.

Update: this should work. Untested, but you get the idea.

    my @stack;
    while(defined(my $t = $p->get_token())){
        if($t->is_start_tag('a')) {
            my $attr = $t->return_attr;
            push @stack, exists $attr->{href};
            print(
                "\nHREF TAG-->[",
                ++$hrefCount,
                "]-->",
                $attr->{href},
                "\n\n"
            ), next if $stack[-1];
        }

        next if $t->is_end_tag('a') and pop @stack;

        print TEMPO $t->as_is;
    }

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Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^3: Is there a faster / more efficient / quicker or easier way to do this? by Aristotle
in thread Stripping a-href tags from an HTML document by keyDemun

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