my %pi; get_page($site, \%pi); print $pi{'length'}, " bytes\n"; #################################################### sub get_page { my ($site, $pi) = @_; $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new() unless $browser; my $response = $browser->get($site); if (!$response->is_success) { die "\nError: $status ($site)\n"; } my $content = $response->content; @{$pi}{qw(status content type base length)} = ( $response->status_line; $content; $response->content_type; $response->base; commify(length($content)); ); return; }