# hack to your viewing tastes my $listref; aande (\$listref); foreach my $show (@$listref) { print "$show\n"; }
sub aande
  {
  my $rl = shift;

  my $url = 'http://aande.com/perl/tv/tvlistings.pl?channel=aetv&get=t
+oday&tz=pst
';
  my $output = get $url;
  my @lines = split /\n/, $output;
  my $program = "";
  my $description = "";
  my $when = "";

  foreach my $x (@lines)
    {
    chomp $x;
    next unless $x;
    if ($x =~ /<FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="geneva, arial, helvetica"><B>([^<
+]+)</)
      {
      $program = $1;

      $yay = 1;
      if ($program !~ /(Law & Order|Investigative Reports|American Jus
+tice|Murder
 One)/)
        {
        $yay = 0;
        }
      }
    elsif ($x =~ /<FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="geneva, (helvetica, arial|aria
+l, helvetic
a)">(.*)$/)
      {
      my $moo = $2;
      $moo =~ s/<[^>]*>//g;
      if ($moo =~ /&nbsp;-&nbsp;/)
        {
        $when = $moo;
        $when =~ s/&nbsp;/ /g;
        }
      else
        {
$description = $moo;
        }
      push @$rl,
        "$when $program $description\n" if $yay;
      $yay = 0;
      }
    }
  }

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