Hi,

I've been teaching myself HTML::Parser. So far I'm able to process each tag and each text, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to access the attribute.

Here's what I'm testing:

use HTML::Parser();

# Create instance
$p = HTML::Parser->new(start_h => [\&start_rtn, 'tag'],
                text_h => [\&text_rtn, 'text'],
                end_h => [\&end_rtn, 'tag']);
# Start parsing
$p->parse_file('http://www.mysite.com');

sub start_rtn {
# Execute when start tag is encountered
    foreach (@_) {
       print "Start tag = $_\n";
    }
}
sub text_rtn {
# Execute when text is encountered
    foreach (@_) {
       print "Text = $_\n";
    }
}
sub end_rtn {
# Execute when the end tag is encountered
    foreach (@_) {
       print "End = $_\n";
    }
}

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At the moment I can process a html file and output just the tags that I want. However, within that group I want to filter again by attribute. I've searched for solutions, but they either don't match my example, or are too difficult for me to follow. Can anyone help me please?

Thanks

In reply to Perl::Parser access attributes by liverpaul

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