I've been working on a program to extract links from a web page. Something I thought was going to be a very simple process. The problem is that I'm not sure what is the best way to do this. Is it better to use something like: 
my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new( \$document );
and then pulling out type href...

Or better to use regex on the page like
while ($document =~ m/href\s*=\s*"*([^"\s]+)"*\s*>/gi) {
or
while( $document =~ m/<a href=\"(.*?)\"/ig ) {

Or is there something totally different I should be looking at?

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In reply to extracting web links by drake50

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