So I'm trying to write a script that automatically grabs a random quote from the IMDB site. I know that the format of the random quote page is always 
    ...page goes for a while...
  <h1>Random Movie Quote</h1>
    ...quote goes here...
  <P><form method=get action="/Games/randomquote.html">
    ...and page keeps going...
I get the site using LWP::Simple's get() command, and store it in a scalar. I then try to regexp the scalar, by saying 
$content =~ s#.*<h1>Random Movie Quote</h1>(.*)<P><form method=get act
+ion="/Games/randomquote.html">.*#$1#;

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which I assumed would get the quote, which is always in between those two strings. However, it always grabs the entire $content string back again. I assume this means it couldn't find a match, but I'm not sure. Any helpful hints? What's the stupendously obvious thing I'm overlooking? (I did try searching the archives and didn't find anything helpful)

In reply to Getting a chunk of an HTML string? by Anonymous Monk

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