Hi,

I'm using the HTML::TokeParser::Simple module (heartfelt thanks, ovid!) to extract text from various web pages: 

use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;
 
my @html_docs = ( '/home/site/www/content.html' );
my $lookup = #search phrase
  foreach my $doc ( @html_docs ) {
    my $p = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new( file => $doc );
    while ( my $token = $p->get_token ) {
      next unless $token->is_text;
      my $line = $token->as_is;
      if ($line =~ /$lookup/) {
        print qq~$line\n~;
      }
    }
  }

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This extracts the text for me but what I would like to be able to do is print certain tags as text so that a paragraph containing an underline, for example, would appear instead of two or three lines of text, as a single line: "this item <u>contains an</u> underline.

I suspect that I would need to use a call to: if ( $token->is_tag ) { ... } but I'm not sure what the requirement would be.

Any tips would be gratefully received

In reply to Get HTML::TokeParser::Simple to interpret some tags as text by jonnyfolk

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