Hi all

I am having a very difficult time grasping how to use extract a "selected" cell out of a table. Here is what the HTML looks like:

<TD style="HEIGHT: 29px">

    <select name="cmbPurpose" id="cmbPurpose" tabindex="3">
    <option value="CD">Cell Development</option>
    <option value="MS">Miscellaneous R&amp;D</option>
    <option value="NP">New Package</option>
    <option value="NR">Non R&amp;D</option>
    <option value="PC">New process</option>

    <option selected="selected" value="PD">New product</option>
    <option value="SP">Sustaining Product</option>
    <option value="SW">Software and Platform</option>
    <option value="TD">Technology Development</option>

</select></TD>
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What I am looking for is something that will put the two things that I care about - the name of the select and the named value of the selected item. So for this I would expect the following:

"cmbPurpose"
"New Product"

I can get the first part - But I CAN'T get the second part. I am open to any module which will let me parse the values. Here is what I have thus far..

    use HTML::TokeParser;
    my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new( \$webpage->content );
    
    while (my $token = $p->get_tag("select")) {
        my $select = $token->[1]{name} ;
        print "$select\n";
    }
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I don't understand why I am so braindead on this simple idea..

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