I tried a bit with HTML::Parser an I hate it because I think it's complicated to use. But parsing HTML with RegEx quickly become more complicated than parsing with HTML::Parser.
So here's my snippet and I hope it'll help you:
# This script will extract text which is incuded in <b>
use strict;
use HTML::Parser;
local $/;
my $html = <DATA>;
my $p = HTML::Parser->new(api_version => 3,
start_h => [\&b_start_handler,"tagname,self"]
);
$p->parse($html);
sub b_start_handler {
my ($tagname,$self) = @_;
return unless $tagname eq 'b';
$self->handler(text => [], '@{dtext}' );
$self->handler(end => \&b_end_handler,"tagname,self");
}
sub b_end_handler {
my($tag,$self) = @_;
my $text = join("", @{$self->handler("text")});
print "$text\n---\n";
$self->handler("text", undef);
$self->handler("start", \&b_start_handler);
$self->handler("end", undef);
}
__DATA__
<P class=para><a name="watch dog"></a><b>watch dog
-</b> A big dog that makes sure that you don't do anything that you're
not supposed to).</p>
<p class=para><a name="WR"></a><b>wooden round –</b> A big piece of ro
und wood.</p>
Greets Alex