Hi Discipulus, Used your code suggestion (see below). I'm guessing that the $response variable will contain the 30 lines I'm looking for. As is, $response is empty. Any ideas?? Thanks so much! Rick 

strict;
use warnings;
use Tie::File;
use Fcntl;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use File::Slurp;

my @lines;

#Transfer URLS to a string variable;
my $file = "G:/Research/SEC filings 10K and 10Q/Data/sizefiles1.txt";

#Now fill @pages array with contents of sizefile1.txt ... how?
open (FH, "< $file") or die "Can't open $file for read: $!";
my @pages = <FH>;
close FH or die "Cannot close $file: $!";

#connect variable used with GET??
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent-> new;

#Initialize line counter;
my $read_lines=1;

#Primary loop through URLs ;
foreach my $url (@pages)    {
    my $response = $ua->get($url,':content_cb'=>\&head_only);
    print $response->content;
                }
                
#Subroutine for primary loop;                
sub head_only    {
    my ($data,$response,$protocol) = @_;
    my @lines = split "\n", $data;
    foreach my $line (@lines)    {
        if ($read_lines ==31)     {
            #reset line count'
            $read_lines = 1;
            print +("=" x 70), "\n"; #what is this?
            #die inside callback interrupt;
            die;
                               }
        else     {
            #print "line $read_lines: $line\n";
        }
                    }
        }

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In reply to Re^2: Split web page, first 30 lines only -- :content_cb trick by wrkrbeee
in thread Split file, first 30 lines only by wrkrbeee

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