I am using LWP::Simple to grab a webpage's HTML into a variable, I am running a regex against it to match what is between: and I am a super beginner when it comes to perl and regexs, here is my code: 
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use LWP::Simple;

print header,start_html('My Dictionary'),start_form,"Enter a word:",te
+xtfield('word'),p,submit,end_form,hr;

$engine = "http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=";
$word     = param('word');
$url     = "$engine$word"; 
$string = get($url);
$start     = '<!-- resultItemStart -->';
$end     = '<!-- resultItemEnd -->';
$string = m/($start)(*)($end)/;

print "$2";

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I know I should be using a module for this, but I wanna do it on my own.

In reply to pattern matching by silent11

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