Use HTML::Parser. It's a very good module to parse HTML - as the name mentioned.

As code snippet to get all links of a HTML-string:
#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Parser;
use Data::Dumper;

my @links;
my $string = qq~<a href="url1">linktext1</a> Ein anderer Text
                <a href="url2">linktext2</a> text~;
my $p = HTML::Parser->new();
$p->handler(start => \&start_handler,"tagname,attr,self");
$p->parse($string);

foreach my $link(@links){
  print "Linktext: ",$link->[1],"\tURL: ",$link->[0],"\n";
}

sub start_handler{
  return if(shift ne 'a');
  my ($class) = shift->{href};
  my $self = shift;
  my $text;
  $self->handler(text => sub{$text = shift;},"dtext");
  $self->handler(end  => sub{push(@links,[$class,$text]) if(shift eq '
+a')},"tagname");
}

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In reply to Re: Parsing HTML by reneeb
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