I wouldn't use HTML::Parser if I wanted just parts of the document. H::P is nice if you want to iteratively go through an entire page, but maintaining state quickly becomes boring and error prone.

HTML::TreeBuilder, which is based on HTML::Parser, is easier to use. 

use strict;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$tree->parse_file("test.html");

my $content_as_html = sub {
    join "", map { ref($_) ? $_->as_HTML : $_ } shift->content_list;
};

for my $element ($tree->look_down(_tag => "a", href => qr/./)) {
    my $content = $element->$content_as_html;
    my $href    = $element->attr("href");

    $content =~ s/\n//g;
    print ">> $href, $content\n"
}

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In reply to Re: HTML::Parser to extract link text? by Juerd
in thread HTML::Parser to extract link text? by isync

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