Re: Passing complex html-tag input over command line to HTML TreeBuilder method look_down() properly

[Anonymous Monk]

You did not say how/what you had tried to pass the tags and what the program received (use Data::Dumper to print to show exactly). So ...

Use Getopt::Long module to receive "tags" option arguments as a list of strings. Then process the attribute ("class" in your example) and its value yourself (use split( '=' , $attr_value_pair , 2 )).

[sadarax]

Was the first part demonstrating how I invoke the program not clear?

bash $: perl ./download.pl --url 'http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2019/04/17' --tags div --tags class="comic container js-comic-"

[Anonymous Monk]

I did see the invocation; missed the use both of Getopt::Long & split() when I did not see what input you were actually working with. Then I had answered the wrong, possibly nonquestion of passing the tags & the attributes & the values from the command line to your program based on title of OP.