I am trying to get a key and value pair from a "get". I think I am pretty close but the script doesn't return me anything. Basically I am looking for a word that is always before the word I am looking for, and then one after that matching another word, and then matching the first (as the key) with the second (as the value). Any help is very much appreciated!

#!perl
use LWP::Simple;

#being a good boy
use strict;
use warnings;

my %categories = ();
my $page = get 'http://www.inshift.com/Products.html';
while ($page=~m/href=\"(\w+?)".+?class=\"rightnav\"\>(\w+?)\</sg){
    $categories{$1}=$2;
    #this print doesn't come up at all!
    print "[$1] and [$2]";
    }
my @pairlist = keys(%categories);
my $idkey = ();
foreach $idkey (@pairlist) {
    #this one doesn't show up at all either
    print "$idkey,$categories{$idkey}\n";
    }

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Michael Jensen
michael at inshift.com
http://www.inshift.com

In reply to Key/Value pair from GET by inblosam

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