Thanks Athanasius, this completes the task set forth in this thread. I have to confess, however, that I'm having trouble seeing why my attempt to trim it further does not alter the ultimate string: 

C:\cygwin64\home\Fred\pages2\list>perl scraper4.pl
38. Don't live your fears, live your dreams.
38. Don't live your fears, live your dreams.

C:\cygwin64\home\Fred\pages2\list>type scraper4.pl
#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use open ':std', OUT => ':utf8';
use HTML::TreeBuilder 5 -weak;

my $site = 'http://motivationgrid.com/50-inspirational-quotes-to-live-
+by/';
my $tree =  HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_url($site);
my @quotes;

for ($tree->look_down(_tag => 'p'))
{
    if ((my $t = $_->as_text) =~ m{ ^ \d+ \. \s+ }x)
    {
        $t =~ s{ \x{2019}  }{'}gx;
        $t =~ s{ \xA0      }{ }gx;
        $t =~ s{ \x{2013} }{--}gx;
        push @quotes, $t;
    }
}



my $randomelement = $quotes[rand @quotes];
print "$randomelement\n";
$randomelement =~ s/^ \d+ \. \s+//;
print "$randomelement\n";

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Otherwise, I'm really pleased.

In reply to Re^6: regex to get random quote by Aldebaran
in thread regex to get random quote by Aldebaran

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