Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 22:36 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I was trying to limit the result to the words /Health and Safety > Classes/ that appear on the page. How do I get there?
At first you need to understand regex! :) > open PAGE, 'c://redcross.htm'; > while( my $line = <PAGE> ) { > $line =~ /Health and Safety Classes/ > print "$1\n"; > } $1 has no value because you did not use groups. The esiest - based on you code - is: while( <PAGE> ) { print if /Health and Safety Classes/; } Look after: perldoc perlopentut perldoc perlretut perldoc perlre perldoc LWP cu, Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>