I'm probably overlookin' something obvious in the POD, but I can't seem to find out how to get the post-parse string out of it without reaching into a private variable.

my $parser_object = HTML::Praser->new( ... ); #boring args omitted
$parser_object->parse($my_string);
return $parser_object->{_private}->{text}; #so icky
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Looking at the POD, I can't see the way to return the string otherwise. The likely culprits like eof() return the parser object itself. Have I missed something obvious?