feed it a word, and it spits back the definition.
sub getWord { my ($word) = @_; my $content = get("http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=$w +ord"); if ($content =~ /<!-- resultItemStart -->/) { my @content = '200'; my $temp; while ($content =~ /<!-- resultItemStart -->/) { $content =~ s/.*?<!-- resultItemStart -->(.*?)<!-- resultItemEnd + -->//s; $temp = $1; while ($temp =~ /<(li|dd).*>.*<\/\1>/is) { $temp =~ s#.*?<(li|dd).*?>(.*?)</\1>##is; $_ = $2; s/(<.*?>|\&.*?\;)//sg; s/^\s+(.*)\s+$/$1/; push(@content, $_); } } return @content; } elsif ($content =~ /<!-- resultListStart -->/) { ($content) = $content =~ /<!-- resultListStart -->(.*?)<!-- result +ListEnd -->/s; $content =~ s/<.*?>//gs; $content =~ s/^.*?Suggestions:\s+(.*?)\n\n.*$/$1/s; my @content = split(/\n/, $content); unshift(@content, '404'); return @content; } else { return undef; } }

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