Hello Esteemed Monks of Perl,

I have a problem that I have been working on for a couple of days. I'm a new comer to Perl, so I may be missing something obvious, but my searching through the web and documentation has not produced a definitive answer on this.

My problem is I have some string of text ($text) that I know is somewhere in a page of HTML. What I would like to do is search though the HTML for $text and find out what the lowest level element is that contains $text, and be able to find out the ancestors for that element.

I feel like I am in the right arena with HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::TokeParser, since TreeBuilder maintains the relationships I am looking for while TokeParser make it easy to search for text, but I feel like I need some combination of the two. I also feel like I might be overlooking something obvious in one or the other (I guess I have a lot of feelings.)

In reply to Finding the DOM element via text search by wbushey

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