my $link = 'somelinek'; my $page = get($link) or die $!; my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$page); my $doparse = 1; ## 0 means don't parse while (my $token = $stream->get_token) { if ($token->[0] eq 'S') { if ($token->[1] eq 'table') { $doparse = 0; } elsif ($token->[1] eq 'img') { ;; } } elsif ($token->[0] eq 'E' and $token->[1] eq 'table') { $doparse = 1; } elsif ($token->[0] eq 'C') { ;; } elsif ($token->[0] eq 'T' and $doparse eq 1) { # text process the text in $token->[1] # skip: empty lines, " " if (defined ($token->[1])) { $token->[1] =~ s/ / /ig; $token->[1] =~ s/’/'/ig; $token->[1] =~ s/[7-8];/"/ig; $token->[1] =~ s/—//ig; $token->[1] =~ s/&/&/ig; $token->[1] =~ s/-{2,}//ig; print "$token->[1]"; } } }