hi,

I'm trying to print out the href attribute of all links in a document but not succeeding for some reason. I keep getting the error:

Can't use string ("</a>")as a HASH ref while strict refs in use

It's probably some stupid mistake but I'm new to HTML::TokeParser and perl so bear with me. The code is:

#! c:\perl\bin -w

use strict;

use HTML::TokeParser;
my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new(shift||die);

while (my $token = $p->get_token) {
    print $token->[2]{'href'}, "\n" if ($token->[1] eq 'a');
    }

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And the relevant part of the html is:

 <td nowrap> <font size="-1"><a href="/home.cfm" target="_top" class="
+novisit">Home</a>
         &nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="/SpecimenSearch.cfm" target="_top" clas
+s="novisit">Specimen&nbsp;Search</a>

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Any comments about coding style are welcome.

In reply to HTML::Tokeparser and $attr problem by dannoura

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