HTML::TokeParser comes with HTML::Parser, HTML::Element with HTML::Tree.

The problem is if there is no such html::tokeparser in my perl, I should get the "can't locate ...@INC" error. Not the perl interpreter error.

You're right. That does indeed imply there's a lot more wrong than just a missing module. Do you have, by any chance, more than one perl installed? An older version, 5.6.x or earlier?

I looked in to perl/lib/html directory. Tokerparser was there with some other modules.

Try

perl -le "print for @INC"
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and see if the modules you can find are under one of the directories listed there, or if it's using modules of another version of Perl.

When you use PPM, you need to be aware of two things:

1. The PPM module names most always have a '-' where you might expect a '::'. For instance, HTML::TokeParser becomes HTML-TokeParser.
   
2. You might need to include an additional repository in addition to the default ActiveState repository:
   
   ppm rep add trouchelle.com http://trouchelle.com/ppm/

After running that command, you should see HTML-TokeParser available in your PPM.

bart is right. I deleted all perl related files, then reinstalled. Now it's working. But the trouchelle.com repository again not working for me. My ppm can't unpack the modules from the repository. Again why?

ppm can't unpack the modules from the repository

The trouchelle repository bundles the modules into zip archives (instead of the more usual tar.gz format), and older versions of ppm can handle only the tar.gz format.

However, since you're using perl 5.8.8, I would expect that you have a version of ppm that does handle the zip format. What do you get when you run ppm version ?

Also, which build of ActivePerl are you running ? I get:

C:\>perl -e "print $ActivePerl::VERSION"
822
C:\>
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Cheers, Rob

What does ppm repo list say:

C:\>ppm repo list
+----+------+--------------------------------+
+ id + pkgs + name                           +
+----+------+--------------------------------+
+  1 + 6843 + ActiveState Package Repository +
+  2 +  648 + theoryx                        +
+----+------+--------------------------------+
 (2 enabled repositories)

C:\>
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Read perldoc ppm and experiment with the repo commands.
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Andreas

in Cannot use HTML::TokeParser zli034 said q{ I then tried use ppm install the html::tokeparser. There is no such module in the ppm list. }

I'm not sure if it's a too-lazy-to-careism or if it's exactly as you asked PPM to install but Perl's module names are case sensitive and that could be what's causing the module to be absent (although I'm not sure how nicely that plays with windows' case-insensitive filesystem)

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