I haven't read your code closely, but I get the feeling that you're trying to use HTML::Parser to extract text below tags, especially the text contained in <a> tags together with the href attribute. HTML::Parser is a rather unwieldly tool to extract text below tags in my opinion - I prefer to use XPath expressions for such tasks. Depending on what tools you have available, you might want to use XML::LibXML or Web::Scraper or HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath (which is what Web::Scraper uses) for running the XPath expressions. I write the link+text extraction using Web::Scraper:

use strict;
use Web::Scraper;
use Data::Dumper;

my $html = join "", <DATA>;

# Invoked for a <a> tag
my $link = scraper {
    process '//a' => 'href' => '@href';
    process '//a' => 'description' => 'TEXT';
};

my $page = scraper {
    process '//a[@href]' => 'links[]' => $link;
    process '//meta[@http-equiv]' => 'meta[]' => '@content';
    process '//area[@href]' => 'areas[]' => '@href';
    
};

my $info = $page->scrape($html);

print Dumper $info;
__DATA__

__DATA__
... your html ...

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Update: After some quick browsing of the CPAN for XPath, I found XML::XPathEngine, by mirod, and quite unsurprisingly XML::Twig already understands XPath expressions. So it should be quite feasible to jury-rig Web::Scraper to use XML::Twig instead of HTML::TreeBuilder as the underlying parsing engine. Or you might just use XML::Twig directly.

In reply to Re: HTML::Parser fun by Corion
in thread HTML::Parser fun by FreakyGreenLeaky

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