I hate to ask this but I have been reading and trying to do this for a day. I read and installed the follwoing perl modules, HTML::Strip, Parser, TreeBuilder, and Element and I still cannot figure out how to get the data that I need.

I want to grab the following fields from an html page.

Harry Jones Wood Shop, 56789904,-938882991, Smith Rd New York, NY 14254, (154)555-1234 

<div class=\042mytitle maximumtitle\042 id=\042idtitle\042> Harry Jone
+s <b>Wood </b> &amp; Shop</div>

latlng=56789904,-938882991,3132132133321 &amp;

<div class=\042address\042 id=\042idaddr\042>737373 Smith Rd<br/>New Y
+ork, NY 14254<br/></div><div class=\042

</div><div class=\042phone\042>(154) 555-1234&nbsp;-&nbsp;<span style=
+\042display:none\042 class=\042my_hide\042>

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I am able to get the web page into the program by doing this: 

  my $url = 'http://www.somepage.com';
  # $browser->cookie_jar({});   #### use if the site requires cookies

  my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;

  my @ns_headers = (
   'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)',
   'Accept' => 'image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg,
        image/pjpeg, image/png, */*',
   'Accept-Charset' => 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8',
   'Accept-Language' => 'en-US',
  );
  my $response = $browser->get( $url, @ns_headers);
  die "Can't get $url -- ", $response->status_line
     unless $response->is_success;

  die "Hey, I was expecting HTML, not ", $response->content_type
      unless $response->content_type eq 'text/html';

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I have tried methods find->tag and otehrs and I am not getting anywhere. I also found a post on perlmonks regarding parsing and I edited the line fro mthe posting and tried this: 
@addr = $response->content =~ /<div class=\042mytitle maximumtitle\042
+ id=\042idtitle\042>"([^ "]+)"/gi;

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Can you please help? Thanks

In reply to HTML parsing OR capturing text from a string within tags by kevyt

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