I looked at Mojo::Dom briefly. It's a general purpose tool. Was hoping for a module that let me knock this out in in like two lines. Mojo::Dom is my fallback plan if I can't find what I'm looking for.

"Was hoping for a module that let me knock this out in in like two lines."

Ignoring this many dependant modules and literally thousands of lines of code :P

my $html = 'url: <a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>';
my $dom  = Mojo::DOM->new( $html );
say $dom->at('a')->remove;
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Almost, not quite. Need this:

# strips a specific tag from string
sub eliminate_tags {
  my ($page, $tag) = @_;

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new;
foreach my $b ($dom->parse($page)->find($tag)->each) {
  $b->remove
}
  return $dom;
}
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So my beef it that: 1) I'd have to be familiar enough with Mojo::Dom to figure out it could do this (I'm not) so I needed to come PerlMonks to find someone like you to help and 2) I have to spend 20 min. wading through monstrous documentation to figure out how to use it for something simple.

So why isn't a specific tool better than a general purpose tool? You're saying a specific tool is inferior because it has more dependencies?

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Would it make sense, in your opinion, to create new module that is just a wrapper for Mojo::DOM with a specific use case of deleting nodes with a certain tag and submitting to cpan?

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