Holy Monks,

I have a piece of code that's driving me crazy. In short, I am trying to extract the link from <a href links through out my HTML page. I have the extract_tagged code working in other parts of my program, and from what I can tell it is exactly the same as this chunk that is mis-behaving.

Bad boy:

if (/<a href\=\"/) {
  my @link = extract_tagged($_, '<a href="', '">', undef, undef);
  print "  @link[4]\n";
}

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This code works:

else {
  my @text = extract_tagged($_, '<li>', '</li>', undef, undef);
  print "  *@text[4]*\n";
}

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Here is some text that the code is parsing:
<li><a href="menuheader.html">menuheader.cfm</a></li>

I know that the condition for the if statement is firing, because I can print out some debugging text inside. If I return a count of @link, its 3, but it should at least be 5, if I understand things right. I've tried returning @link positions 0-5, and all return null. I've tried escaping the quotes and/or equal signs as well.

FYI, I am fairly new to Perl, so go easy on me. ;)

In reply to extract_tagged by yacoubean

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