sub extract_html_to_temp_file #url, path&file { my $temp_var = ""; my $url = $_[0]; chomp($url); my $filename = $_[1]; chomp($filename); open(OUTPUT_FILE,">$filename") or die "COULDN'T OPEN FILE!!!, $!\n"; $_ = get($url);#read HTML file contents into variable $temp_var = $_; print OUTPUT_FILE $temp_var; close(OUTPUT_FILE); }