my $data = get . . . . $data =~ . . . . #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple; my $data = get ("http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/index.html"); my ($wanted) = $data =~ /\s*(.*)\s*/s; open (FH,'>file.txt') || die $!; # > creates a new file, >> appends print FH $wanted; close FH; # not really necessary in this simple script