As in this post I use HTML::Parser to extract the content of the a href tag. 
$p->handler( start => \&a_start_handler, "tagname,self,attr" );
$p->unbroken_text( 1 );
$p->parse( $content ) || die $!;

foreach my $link ( @linklist ){
 print $link->[0]; #link
 print $link->[1]; #text
}

sub a_start_handler {
  my( $tag, $self, $attr ) = @_;

  # we only act on <a tags
  return if $tag ne "a";

  if( defined( $href = $attr->{href} ) ){
    $self->handler(text => sub { $text = shift; $text =~ s/\n//g; },"d
+text");
    $self->handler( end => \&a_end_handler, "tagname,self" );
  }

  foreach my $key ( keys %$attr ){
  #  print ">$key=$attr->{$key}\n";
  }


}

sub a_end_handler {
  return if shift ne "a";
  my $self = shift;

  push @linklist, [ $href, $text ] if defined $text && $text !~ /^\s*$
+/;

  $self->handler(end => undef );
  $self->handler(text => undef );
}

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And as it should, it properly strips all html from it. But now, I need to get also all markup contained in the link. But as it seems, changing this line 
    $self->handler(text => sub { $text = shift; $text =~ s/\n//g; },"d
+text");

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to 
$self->handler( text => sub { $text = shift; $text =~ s/\n//g; },"text
+");

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does not give the expected result (switch from getting dtext to getting text).
Any hint. Am I on the wrong track here (admitting that the parser interface is a bit hard to understand)?

In reply to HTML::Parser to extract link text? by isync

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