in reply to tokenize a string

I thought about using HTML::TokeParse to get the attributes out, but I am trying to avoid installing the pm on several hundred ws.
You might as well prepare for the eventuality, esp since apt-get perl-HTML-Parser is available.

Is there a quick and dirty way to get this string tokenized? Thanks
One example is strip HTML tags, another is YAPE::HTML

#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use YAPE::HTML; my $content = q~<a style='postion: top; font:roman' href=hi.html href= +'bold' src="image" />~; my $parser = YAPE::HTML->new($content); my ($extor,@fonts,@urls,@headings,@comments); # here is the tokenizing part while (my $chunk = $parser->next) { use Data::Dumper; print Dumper( $chunk ),"\n"; if ($chunk->type eq 'tag' and $chunk->tag eq 'a') { #token 1 = a print "token 1 = ", $chunk->tag,"\n"; } } __END__ $VAR1 = bless( { 'TEXT' => [], 'ATTR' => { 'src' => 'image', 'href' => 'bold', 'style' => 'postion: top; font:roman' }, 'CLOSED' => 0, 'TAG' => 'a', 'IMPLIED' => '/', 'TYPE' => 'tag' }, 'YAPE::HTML::tag' ); token 1 = a