Name
new
Synopsis
new( )
Constructor. Takes a filename, filehandle, or reference
to a scalar as arguments. Each argument represents the content
that will be parsed. If a scalar is present, new looks for a filename $scalar. If a reference to a scalar
is present, new looks for
HTML in \$scalar. new will read filehandles until
end-of-file. Returns undef
on failure.
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