Having looked at the HTML:: modules, i really do think this is exactly what i want/need it to do...

It works marvelously, except that when using extract_multiple with extract_tagged as the subroutine, there seems no (obvious:) way to access the 5th (#4) element of the array returned by extract_tagged....

Or is it that by calling it within extract_multiple it isn't in list context? But if that's the case, then it must be in scalar context, what happens to the remainder string?

i guess the crux of my question is: "When using extract_multiple, how does one access the other members of the returned array, as it seems that item 0 is the only available?"

i've got a some working code, but am reluctant to post the code here (it is an anti-spambot tool, after all)but i'd be happy to share it via email.

update

i've worked it out with a for loop (i know, control structures are for whimps! guilty as charged!)..

# find all the URLs from the page contents, rejecting any from bianca
@data = extract_multiple( $response->content, 
                [ sub {extract_tagged($_[0], 
                '<a href="http://', '</a>', 
                undef, 
                {reject => ['bianca.com']} ) } ], 
                                    undef, 1);

# loop thru and strip the URL to it's bare address, this is
# what's needed to insert into the database
for (my $i=0; $i<=$#data; $i++) {
    my @temp = extract_tagged($data[$i], '<a href="http://', '">', und
+ef, undef);
    $data[$i] = $temp[4];
}
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Thanks again for everyone's help and comments!

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