I agree with graff's approach.

Perhaps a gentler introduction to parsing HTML would be to avoid HTML::Parser's "handlers" (which I find can be tricky) and consider something like HTML::TokeParser::Simple. To my eye it often "reads" better, ymmv. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;

my $html = get(qq{http://search.cpan.org/});

my $p = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new(\$html);

my $start_found;
while (my $t = $p->get_token){
  $start_found++, last if (
    $t->is_start_tag(q{center})
      and
    $t->get_attr(q{class})
      and
    $t->get_attr(q{class}) eq q{categories}
  );
}
die qq{tag not found} unless $start_found;

my $center_html;
while (my $t = $p->get_token){
  last if (
    $t->is_end_tag(q{center})
  );
  $center_html .= $t->as_is;
}

die qq{no content found} unless $center_html;

print $center_html;

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