Or, add a hashref with lots of new options instead of more new like methods.

++, but there's no need for a hash reference: 


my $parser1 = HTML::TokePaser::Simple->new(path => $file_name); 
my $parser2 = HTML::TokePaser::Simple->new(handle => $file_handle);
my $parser3 = HTML::TokePaser::Simple->new(string => $string); 
my $parser4 = HTML::TokePaser::Simple->new(fqdn => $fqdn);

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And is there some reason a bit more auto-sensing couldn't be added to make these be typically implicit? Sure, to be safe, you'd want to use the two-argument form above, but for one-offs you could use the short form. 


my $parser1 = HTML::TokePaser::Simple->new($file_name); 
my $parser2 = HTML::TokePaser::Simple->new($file_handle);
my $parser3 = HTML::TokePaser::Simple->new($long_string); 
my $parser4 = HTML::TokePaser::Simple->new($uri);

  sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my ($mode, $target) = (@_ == 1 ? $class->guess_mode($_[0]) : (), @
+_);
    my $source = ( $mode eq 'path' )      ? $target :
                 ( $mode eq 'stringref' ) ? $target :
                 ( $mode eq 'string' )    ? \$target : 
                                            do {
                                              my $method = "source_for
+_$mode";
                                              $class->$method( $target
+ )
                                            };
    $class->SUPER::new( $source );
  }

  sub guess_mode {
    my $class = shift;
    ( ref($_[0]) =~ /^IO|FileHandle/) ? 'handle' : 
    ( ref($_[0]) eq 'SCALAR' )        ? 'stringref' : 
    ( $_[0] =~ /^\w{3-6}\:/ )         ? 'uri' : 
    ( length($_[0]) > 1024 )          ? 'string' : 
                                        'path';
  }

  sub source_for_uri {
    my ($class, $uri) = @_;
    # ...
  }

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In reply to Re^2: HTML::TokeParser::Simple advice requested by simonm
in thread HTML::TokeParser::Simple advice requested by Ovid

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