Hi, Im trying to find the value of the hash keys of the token returned when HTML::Tokeparser operates on a HTML tag.

I understand that references dont work as hash keys. Im 70% sure I'm doing something different.

I think Im running into problems becasue I am not dereferencing properly.

I get the error message

Reference found where even-sized list expected at example.pl line 28

I want to access the data stored in HASH(0x86b44c) using the code below 

#!/usr/bin/perl
# script to find the hash keys of a token returned by HTML:tokeparser.
# for example  <li><a href="link1.html" class="c1">link 1</a></li>
# returnes href  and class. 

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTML::Tokeparser;
use Data::Dumper;

my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new("test.html")

  || die "couldn't read in HTML file: $! ";

$stream->get_tag("h1");
$stream->get_tag("ul");

while ( my $token = $stream->get_token ) {

    if ( $token->[0] eq 'S' and $token->[1] eq 'a' )

    {
     
     # what is going on here? What am i dealing with?
     
        print " $token->[2]\n  ";
     #   print " $token->[2]{href}\n\n  ";
     #   print Dumper "$token \n\n\n"

      
      # set the reference to the hash to new hash %hash
      
      # how do i dereference this?
      
      my %hash = $token->[2];

        #    below wont work unless i feed it a hash
        #    my $key;
        #    foreach $key (keys %hash) {
        #    print "at $key we have $hash{$key}\n";
        #    }

    }

}

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My html document is here 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>test document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> This is a test of HTML::Tokeparser</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="link1.html" class="c1">link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="link2.html" class="c1">link 2</a></li>
<li><a href="link3.html"class="c1">link 3</a></li>
<li><a href="link4.html" class="c1">link 4</a></li>
<li><a href="link5.html"class="c0">link 5</a></li>
<li><a href="link6.html" class="c0">link 6</a></li>
</ul>

</body>
</html>

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What am I doing wrong?

In reply to accessing a hash via reference by richill

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