I've added this in the chatterbox but I'm trying here as well. I have two web pages that are both displaying comma separated values. One page has customer id and storage size. The other has customer id and names. I need to figure out a way to match the csv's names from one page to the others corresponding cust id
webpage1ex: c500, 345.5 webpage2ex: c500, younggrasshopper13
I figured I could curl the url into a variable like so: 
START_DATE=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d' -d "-1 month")
END_DATE=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')

my $data = curl `http://www.webpagedata.com?end_date=$END_DATE&start_d
+ate=$START_DATE&type=csv 2>&1`
my $name = curl `http://www.webpagename.com?end_date=$END_DATE&start_d
+ate=$START_DATE&type=csv 2>&1`

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That is just an example of what I was trying to do without giving you guys the webpages. I don't know how much I can give since it is work related. I figured once I got the curl to input the strings into variables I could somehow use the variables and match the customer Id of the first web page to the customer id of the second webpage and merge over the corresponding name. Then I need to take this output and curl it to an email that gets delivered. the email should include customer id, storage, and name

In reply to parsing CSV by younggrasshopper13

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