Don't listen to the insane ramblings of the Anonymous Monk.

If you have to work some HTML-file, your best bet is one of the parser modules such as HTML::Parser.

Looking at the structure of your HTML file, you will see that the info you are looking for is always contained within a a-tag and more specifically within the href-attribute in that tag.

With HTML::Parser it is trivially easy to extract all a-tags from the HTML file and then use a regex to see if the attribute contains the string 'CIS Report for followed by a date. Extracting the date and the filename is simple. You probably just want to extract the filename for the date of today. That is left as an exercise for you.

Here follows the basic program:

use strict;
use HTML::Parser ();

# Create parser object
my $p = HTML::Parser->new( api_version => 3,
                        start_h => [\&a_tag, "tag, attr"],
                      );

$p->parse_file('c:/data/perl/script/volvo.html');

sub a_tag {
    my $tag = shift;
    return unless $tag eq 'a';
    my $hashref = shift;
    return unless $hashref->{'href'}=~m|'CIS Report for (\d{2}/\d{2}/\
+d{4})|;
    my $date = $1;
    (my $file) = $hashref->{'href'}=~m|PopupInfo\('(.*pdf)|;
    print "$date: $file\n";
}
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And it prints:

12/26/2007: CE1B85BDDDE8F58A852573BD003B1FBC/$file/vcmorarorp346601226
+200712262007944204.pdf
12/26/2007: CE1B85BDDDE8F58A852573BD003B1FBC/$file/vcmorarorp346601226
+200712262007944204.pdf
12/25/2007: C0FBD06860B80B7B852573BC003B3738/$file/vcmorarorp346601225
+200712252007939900.pdf
12/25/2007: C0FBD06860B80B7B852573BC003B3738/$file/vcmorarorp346601225
+200712252007939900.pdf
12/24/2007: 31ED64C95AFF1A06852573BB003F55E5/$file/vcmorarorp346601224
+200712242007930592.pdf
12/24/2007: 31ED64C95AFF1A06852573BB003F55E5/$file/vcmorarorp346601224
+200712242007930592.pdf
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Remark: It seems each filename is mentioned twice in the HTML-page.