Re^3: Regex to match first html tag previous to text


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Re^3: Regex to match first html tag previous to text

by aquarium (Curate)

on Nov 29, 2007 at 04:26 UTC ( [id://653768]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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parsing vs access methods does get blurry...anyway, in the end we're interested in getting to point B and not that interested in the trip itself...whether parsing or using an access method.
to this point...i think (possibly) best for this problem would be find_link() method of WWWW::Mechanize. not as tedious as Xpath or HTML::Tree etc.

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