Hi all,

I am completely new to PERL and a little overwhelmed by all the documentation out there. My task: I need to search for specific parameters on a resume search site and save the resume results in a txt file. I can get the search to work correctly, but I do not know how the open, print, and close filehandle works with my while routine. I would really appreciate any assistance you can offer.

Code is below.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new(
 agent => 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64 AppleWebKit/535.21 (KHTML, l
+ike Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1042.0 Safari/535.21');

my $url      = 'http://www.beyond.com/resumes/resume-search.asp';
my $response = $agent->post( $url,
{ 'FEducationLevel'   => '2110',
   'FExperienceLevelMin' => '2125',
   'FExperienceLevelMax' => '2127',
  'FSinceDate'=> '90',
  'FKeywords'=> 'administrative assistant',
  'FCountryState' => 'US~GA',
  'Fmetros' => '12060'} );

my $html = $response->decoded_content;

while ( $html =~ /"resumeDetailLink" href="([^"]+)"/sg )

{my $link_url = 'http://www.beyond.com' . $1;
open FH,">>results.txt";
print $link_url . "\n";
close FH, "results.txt";
}
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