my $availability = LWP::Simple::get("https://$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}/cgi-bin/booking.pl?command=check&st=$data{'st'}&ed=$data{'ed'}&force=$data{'force'}"); print "->$availability<-\n"; if (!defined @avail) { foreach (split /\n/, $availability) { chomp; my ($k, $v) = split/,/; $avail[$k] = $v; } }