I need to write a script to parse a collection of html pages and extract a portion of each page, identified by and comments. I would like to use HTML::TokeParser. How can I tell HTML::TokeParser to read the file until it comes to the "start" comment, then parse/output html until it reaches the "end" comment, then exit? My (probably comical) attempt got all text from the document follows: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use diagnostics;
use strict;
use HTML::TokeParser;

my $filename = '/Users/peternelson/Desktop/atdstudy.html';
my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new($filename)
  || die "Couldn't read HTML file $filename: $!";


while  (my $token = $stream->get_token) {

LOOK: {
    if ($token->[0] eq 'C' and $token->[1] eq '<!-- InstanceBeginEdita
+ble name="article" -->') {
        goto PARSE;
        }
    else {
        next;    
    }
}#end look


PARSE: {        
    if ($token->[0] eq 'C' and $token->[1] eq '<!-- InstanceEnd -->') 
+{
        exit;
    }
    elsif ($token->[0] eq 'T') {
        print $token->[1];
    }
    next PARSE;
}#end parse
}

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Thanks!

In reply to Extracting HTML between comments by pnelson

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