worked - code below
use strict; use warnings; use LWP::UserAgent; use feature 'say'; my ($price); my $todaysQuoteStr = 'data-reactid="49"><span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b) + Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) D(ib)" data-reactid="50">'; $todaysQuoteStr = quotemeta($todaysQuoteStr); my $url = 'https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL?p=AAPL&.tsrc=fin-srch' +; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url); $ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537. +36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36'); my $response = $ua->request($req); my $string = $response->decoded_content; #say "string = $string"; say "\t\t\t=>searching for todays quote pattern [$todaysQuoteStr]"; + my ($counter,$position) = (0,''); while ($string =~ m/$todaysQuoteStr/g) { $counter++; $position = pos($string); if ($counter == 1) {last;} # } if (!(defined($position))) { $position = ''; } if ($position eq '') { say "\t\t\t\t<<pattern not found!>> "; } else { my $quoteStr = substr $string, $position, 20; say "quoteStr = $quoteStr"; my $endStr = '</span>'; $endStr = quotemeta($endStr); my @quotes = split(/$endStr/,$quoteStr); $price = $quotes[0]; say "\t\t\t[price = $price]"; }

In reply to Re^3: LWP::UserAgent & match by vskatusa
in thread LWP::UserAgent & match by vskatusa

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