use CGI qw/:standard/; use LWP::Simple; print header,start_html('My Dictionary'),start_form,"Enter a word:",textfield('word'),p,submit,end_form,hr; $engine = "http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term="; $word = param('word'); $url = "$engine$word"; $string = get($url); $start = ''; $end = ''; $string = m/($start)(*)($end)/; print "$2";