I am more of a PERL user than a PERL writer and I have a problem that I cannot figure out. I am very limited in PERL experience so the solution could be very obvious. I am using a search engine in PERL to search my site. I really like how it works but unfortunately, it searches the html document and gives me results based on things such as links and even Javascript. I would consult the original writer of the code but I downloaded it from a site a couple days ago and forgot where I got it. Here is the code, important and unimportant. Im praying I use the code tags right. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#The following code deals with the form data
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST')
{
    read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
    @pairs =split(/&/, $buffer);
    
    foreach $pair (@pairs)
    {
        ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
        $value =~ tr/+/ /;
        $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
        $FORM{$name}= $value;
    }
}

$keyword=$FORM{keyword};

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<h2> Here are the files we found</h2>\n\n";

chdir("/usr/local/etc/httpd");

opendir(DIR, ".");

while($file = readdir(DIR))
{
    next if ($file !~ /.htm/);
    open(FILE, $file);
    $foundone = 0;
    $title = "";
    while (<FILE>)
    {
        if (/$keyword/i)
        {
            $foundone = 1;
        }
        if (/<TITLE>/)
        {
            chop;
            $title = $_;
            $title =~ s/<TITLE>//g;
            $title =~ s/<\TITLE>//g;
        }
    }

    if ($title eq "")
    {
        $title = $file;
    }

    if($foundone)
    {
        print "<A HREF=/$file>$title</A><BR>";
        $listed=1;
    }

close(FILE);

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After that it just prints out some default stuff and exits. But like I said its giving html and javascript results and really the only way I can think of changing that is to ignore everything in between the head tags (for javascript) and the tags (for the links which are my main problems). I hope I have made some sense here. Like I said, I'm more of a reader than a writer. I understand almost every line of this code, I just don't know how to correctly alter it. On a side note, the program also never prints out the title and istead prints the name of the file every time but thats not my biggest concern right now. If you have any advice on either of them I would appreciate it. Thanks. Divinus

In reply to Search Engine troubles by divinus

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