Thank you for replying. It has moved me forward a little. Upon using:

my $remove = q{<div><div class="blue"></div></div>};

the variable then works in the if statement.

my $str = qr{$line};

or

my $str = q{$line};
<p>gives</p>
 <code>(?^:</div></div><div><div class="blue"></div></div>
)

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to the console, and

( $line = $str ) =~ s/$remove//;

gives

(?^:</div></div>
)

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You are right; I did get a warning before but misunderstood it. Now, adding r to the substition gives another warning:

 Useless use of non-destructive substitution (s///r) in void context at lr.pl line 76.

So I'm still in void context, which is bad, right? And I now have this

(?^:
)

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to learn about. I also tried using

while (<$HTML>)

with

$_

and writing to a separate file, which is getting warmer, actually removing some of the correct things, but leaving behind

(?^:</div></div>
)

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I'm also still using print because say doesn't work for me; it asks for a package. If that little lot prompts no further clues to anyone I shall read on; thanks for your time on this.

In reply to Re^2: Strip specific html sequence by koober
in thread Strip specific html sequence by koober

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