I'm using code basically ripped from Lincoln Stein's book to get a list of links on web pages. Here's the meat: 
sub start {
    my ($parser,$tag,$attr) = @_;
    
    $parser->{last_tag} = $tag;
    return unless $tag eq 'a';
    $parser->{attr} = $attr->{href};
    $parser->handler(text => \&extract, 'self,attr,dtext');
    $parser->handler(end => \&end, 'self,tagname');
}

sub end {
    my ($parser,$tag) = @_;
    undef $parser->{last_tag};
    return unless $tag eq 'a';
    $parser->handler(text => undef);
    $parser->handler(end => undef);
}

sub extract {
    my ($parser,$attr,$text) = @_;
    if ($parser->{last_tag} eq 'a') {
        if ($parser->{attr} && $text && $text !~ /^\s*$/) {
            $text =~ s/\n*//g;
            $parser->{attr} =~ s/\n*//g;;
            push @array, $text;
            push @array, $parser->{attr};
        }
    }
}

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It seemed to work beautifully until it choked on the following bit of html which is all on one line: 
<font size=+1><b><A HREF="/dailyglobe2/142/metro/Plan_adopts_Romney_s_
+ideas_on_higher_education_restructuring+.shtml">Plan adopts Romney's 
+ideas on higher education restructuring</a></b></font><br>

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For some reason, the parser object is reading the single <a> tag in the code above as two <a> tags. It says the first tag contains the text "Plan adopts Romney's" and the second tag contains "ideas on higher education".

I'm stumped. Like I said, the parser seems to work on every other html hyperlink it finds. And it's not that plus sign in the link because the parser works on other links with the plus sign.

Does anyone see why the parser is seeing two links here? Thanks.

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