use strict; my ($title,$meta) = ('',''); while () { ## for test chomp; # .. if (//i) { $title = $_; $title =~ s/<title>(.+?)<\/title>/$1/i; } if (/<meta/i) { $meta = $_; $meta =~ s/<meta .+? CONTENT="(.+?)">/$1/i; } #.. } print "RESULT:\n$title\n$meta\n"; __DATA__ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><head> <TITLE>untitled