Unfortunately that example does not work - unless the OP just wants the text between the div tokens. Div tags generally have all sorts of HTML between them, not just text. That example will lose it all. You can do it like this with HTML::Parser 

{
    package MyParser;
    use base 'HTML::Parser';
    sub start {
       my($self, $tagname, $attr, $attrseq, $origtext) = @_;
       $self->{divs}->[-1] .= $origtext if $self->{dc};
       if ( $tagname eq 'div' ) {
           push @{$self->{divs}}, '';
           $self->{dc}++;
       }
    }
    sub end {
        my($self, $tagname, $origtext) = @_;
        $self->{dc}-- if $tagname eq 'div';
        $self->{divs}->[-1] .= $origtext if $self->{dc};
    }
    sub text {
        my($self, $origtext, $is_cdata) = @_;
        $self->{divs}->[-1] .= $origtext if $self->{dc};
    }
    sub comment {
        my($self, $origtext) = @_;
        $self->{divs}->[-1] .= "<!--$origtext-->" if $self->{dc};
    }
}

my $p = MyParser->new;
$p->parse($content);

# WARNING this array deref will die if we have not put anything 
# in (ie not divs) as we will try to deref an undefined value
if ( exists $p->{divs} ) {
    print"($_)\n" for @{$p->{divs}};
    undef $p->{divs};  # prevent leaks, and accumulating in $p object
}

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Try your example on this HTML 

$content = '
<html>
<div>foo
<!-- comment here -->
</div>
<div id="foo">bar
<a href="hello">somestuff</a>
</div>
</html>
';

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cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re^2: Many matches to an array by tachyon
in thread Many matches to an array by ciryon

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