#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use LWP::Simple; print "test_get.pl\n"; my $amazon_url = q{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394756673/ref=nosim/bookreadersre-20}; my $page = get ($amazon_url); open FILE , '>temp2' or die "Cannot open temp2\n"; print FILE $page; my $sought_string = q{offer-listing}; if ($page =~ /$sought_string/){ print "Found it\n"; } else { print "No luck\n"; }