in reply to help with some parsing
Hail and welcome to the Monastery!
Did you already take a look at WWW::Robot or WWW::Spyder?
For parsing of HTML-pages, HTML::Parser or HTML::Parser::Simple are interesting.
CountZero
A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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