Re: read HTML <title> tag

[dbwiz]

HTML::Parser is not the easiest way of parsing HTML.

Besides Corion's suggestion about HTML::HeadParser, if you need to parse more than the document's title, you may want to get acquainted with HTML::TokeParser. Here is a way of finding the title:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TokeParser;

my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new('index.html') or die "can't open\n";

while (my $token = $p->get_token)
{
    if ($token->[0] eq "S" and lc $token->[1] eq 'title')
    {
        my $title =  $p->get_text() || "<NO TITLE FOUND>";
        print "$title\n";
        last;
    }
}