use LWP::Simple; use HTML::Parse; #Parsing the http file for the required fields $url = 'http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowAbstract&ArtikelNr=6735&Ausgabe=224691&ProduktNr=223832'; $url =~ s/&/=/g ; my @url_mod = split('=', $url); #checking for url and increasing article no. if ($url_mod[5] = 224691) { open(Mytempoutput, ">tempoutput.txt"); print Mytempoutput (get $url); $abs_str=""; $aa[5]= $aa[5]+1; print $aa[5]; }