I get this: Software error: Couldn't get it! at Noumena1.pl line 42. when I try to run the script. It used to work. By 'work' I mean it used attempt to strip a webpage of everything but its punctuation (don't ask) leaving the webpage format unchanged

 code here
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

# /home/sites/www.in-vacua.com/web/cgi-bin/Noumena1.pl -w
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); 
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';
use lib '/.users/27/inv838/Template';
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Parser;


use vars qw($html);
my $content;
# Configurable variables for the script

my %templates = (text => "text_output.html",
                 url  => "url_output.html");

# Initialise a new CGI object for parameter handling, etc.

my $q = CGI->new;

# Check to see if we have any input from the user. If so,
# we go to process it. If not, we'll return a blank form

if ($q->param('text')) {
  my $text = &process_text($q->param('text'));
  &output_template('text',$text);
} elsif ($q->param('url')) {
  my $text = &process_url($q->param('url'));
} else {
  print $q->redirect("/noumena.html");
}

## Subroutine Definitions

# process_url: strip non-punctuation from html docs (harder)

sub process_url {
  my ($url) = @_;
  my $content = get($url);                             #41
  die "Couldn't get it!" unless defined $content;

  # Slightly ugly kludging to sort out internal document links
  # on sites that don't fully qualify (damn them all)

  if (!($url =~ m!^http://!)) {
    $url ="http://".$url;
  }
  $url =~ m!(http://(.*))/!;
  my $baseurl=$1 || $url;

  $content =~ s!href="/(.*)"!href="$baseurl/$1"!ig;
  $content =~ s!rel="/(.*)"!rel="$baseurl/$1"!ig;
  $content =~ s!src="/(.*)"!src="$baseurl/$1"!ig;

  # HTML::Parser is slightly odd - it uses a callback interface which 
+throws
  # things back into this namespace.

  HTML::Parser->new(api_version     => 3,
                    handlers        => [start => [\&_html_parser_tag, 
+"text"],
                                       end    => [\&_html_parser_tag, 
+"text"],
                                       text   => [\&_html_parser_text,
+ "dtext"]],
                    marked_sections => 1,)->parse($content);

  print $q->header;

  print $html;
}

# html_parser_text: handler to tell HTML::Parser what to do with text 
+sections

sub _html_parser_text {
  my ($text) = @_;
  $text =~ s!\w! !g;
  $html .= $text;
}

# html_parser_tag: handler to pass html tags unmolested back to HTML::
+Parser

sub _html_parser_tag {
  my ($text) = @_;
  $html .= $text;
}

# output_template: use Template Toolkit to return data to the user

sub output_template {
  my ($type, $text) = @_;

  print $q->header;

  my $template = Template->new;

  $template->process($templates{$type},
                     {text => $text})
      || die $template->error();
}
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