ww (and hv) - thanks. I'm going to work on digesting your code and respond.

BTW, while daydreaming, I thought of a "lateral solution". I know there are two classic means of parsing XML - stack based, reactive (SAX) and tree based, proactive (DOM). Couldn't a tree based module handle this easily:

pseudocode: 

my $node = tree.getbodynode.getlasttoplevelnode
delete tree.$node if ($node.type == blockquote)
(recurse)

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Voila! Any nesting would be irrelevant, since it wouldn't show up on the top level tree. Would this work? More importantly, is there a tree style HTML parser for Perl (the one I am familiar with is event based, tag based, and reactive)

In reply to Re^2: Using Perl to snip the end off of HTML by eastcoastcoder
in thread Using Perl to snip the end off of HTML by eastcoastcoder

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