the code I have below works great except for one thing, when I put a for loop around it (the first one that goes to $loop=4) it fails completely. Without the loop it goes along and finds all the links on a given webpage, stores those links in an array and then goes into each link to determine if the news article there is something I want to keep ... if it is, the article gets copied and mailed to me.

why does it keep crashing when I put the for loop around the entire program???!! When I run the for loop by itself at top with a simple print statement BLOCK it goes ahead and executes everything as expected, but it fails when I make the entire rest of the program the BLOCK.

I need the entire program BLOCK to be reiterated over and over so I can keep up to date on the press releases, but without having to go and call the program. I intend to put a "sleep" statement in so that it only loops every hour, but if I can't get it to loop then I guess I won't have to worry about that.

the script has been editted for brevity. the loop to 4 is just for testing purposes.

i thought very hard about not including this length of code, but think it is necessary to address the problem. Let me know if I have overstepped proper posting length bounds. thanks, cdherold

for ( $loop=0; $loop=4; $loop++)  {

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::LinkExtor;
use URI::URL;
  $url = "http://www.prnewswire.com";  
  $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  
  my @img = ();
  sub callback {
              my($tag, %attr) = @_;
              return if $tag ne 'a';  # we only look closer at written
+ documents, not images
              push(@img, values %attr);
                                                                      
+                }
  $p = HTML::LinkExtor->new(\&
+callback);

   $res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url),
                      sub {$p->parse($_[0])});
my $base = $res->base;
@img = map { $_ = url($_, $base)->abs; } @img;

splice(@img,-20);
$links = join(",", @img), "\n";
$count++ while $links =~ /http/gsm; 

for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
                                use LWP::Simple;
                                $body = get("@img[$i]");
                                                                      
+            if ($body =~ /inmx/gsmi) { 

                                                                      
+                    $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
                                                                      
+                        $recipient = 'xx@here.com';
                                                                      
+                        open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -t");
                                                                      
+                        print MAIL "To: $recipient\n";
                                                                      
+                        print MAIL "$body\n";
    } 
 }
 }
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