Granted what others have said about modules should give you more flexibility in this, but here's a regex solution for you.

Does weather appear more than once in your list of url's? If not you could just do: 

next if $url =~ m/weather/i;

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or if you're trying to block the cnn site alltogether, you could just use: 

next if $url =~ m!cnn.com/weather/index.html!i;

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I've used ! for my delimeters there so that I don't have to escape my /'s. Makes it a bit easier to read. Also with the url, I don't know that you have to escape the . as it's going to find 1 char, and there should be 1 char between cnn and com which is the '.'

Hope that helps!

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In reply to Re: matching a Url by Popcorn Dave
in thread matching a Url by Anonymous Monk

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