Hello,
I am new to perl and I need your help/advise. I have to
do the following:
1. Download a webpage that has currency rates against the
U.S. dollar (I was able to do this successfully).
2. Grep for the countries desired from a list.
3. Strip the sorrounding html tags from the desired name.
4. List and strip the subsequent five lines that have the
data related to that country.

For example,
html-tag html-tagEURhtml-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tagEurope (Euro)html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tag1.1356html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tag0.8806html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tag0.7142html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tag1.4002html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tagCANhtml-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tagCanada (Dollar)html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tag1.5901html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tag0.6289html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tag1.0000html-tag html-tag
html-tag html-tag1.0000html-tag html-tag

How do make it so that I pattern match for "EUR",
and get the next 5 lines of data, then strip away
the html tags to make the output look like this:

EUR,1.1356,0.8806
CAN,1.5901,0.6289



Thanks,
bembe0417

In reply to How to match pattern and next 5 lines? by Anonymous Monk

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