note merlyn Also consider [cpan://XML::LibXML], which despite its name, can be coaxed into reading HTML, and then provides DOM and XPath interfaces into your HTML tree. It's also far faster than HTML::Tree, keeping the tree in C space, only converting to Perl scalars when necessary. <p> I [http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col49.html|wrote a column about using it to extract data from a web page]. <p>-- [http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/|Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker] <br> Be sure to read [id://205373|my standard disclaimer] if this is a reply.</p> 280461 280461