In an attempt at brevity, here's what I'm using to grab text on a page between any given set of tags (<ul> being the example in this case): 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

  use WWW::Mechanize;
  use HTML::TokeParser;
  
  my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
  $agent->get("http://www.perlmonks.com/");
  
  my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$agent->{content});
  $stream->get_tag("ul");

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For all I know, that works just fine. Being that I want to verify that before I move on, how do I view the contents of $stream? A print function simply gives me "HTML::TokeParser=HASH(0x22dcd84)" as I'm suspecting it should. Past experiences have taught me that sometimes "as_text" or a garden variety of other text commands will format it as I expect, but I've been unable to figure it out for TokeParser. Can someone illustrate what's happening and how I can deal with this in the future? I'm sure my next problem beyond this will be cookie handling, but I'll leave that for another time. (Yes, I've rtfm, but being new, the answer has thus far escaped me) Thanks in advance!

In reply to Parsing web data by tag... help? by SpacemanSpiff

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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