if I understand correctly, I can do something like this, to parse without download the web page...

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $url="http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/targets/v5/detail_view.p
+l?transcript_id=ENST00000226253";
my $content=get ($url);
use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $p = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$p->parse_content($content); # parse_content if you have a string

my @tds = $p->look_down(_tag => q{td}); # get a list of all the td tag
+s
for my $td (@tds){
  my $bold = $td->look_down(_tag => q{b}); # look for a bold tag
  if ($bold){
    print $bold->as_text, qq{\n}; # if there is one print the text
  }
}
$p->delete; # when you've finished with it

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but I don't understand why it doesn't give back me nothing, it seems as the content of the page has no bold string...that impossible...I see them and If I download the page like before and then do the parsing...it works...could you explain me why :-(... thanks too much

In reply to Re^2: quite SOLVED Re^4: parsing html by paola82
in thread parsing html by paola82

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