Well Scot, i never read the how to get links from web pages before but i have a solution, this code is only helpful if you are trying to get only that link here is my code. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @getdata;
while(<DATA>){
    chomp;
    if ( /href=http/ ){
        @getdata=split/\w+\s+|<|>|"|href|=/;
                    
    }
}
print "$getdata[9]";


__DATA__
Go to the BBC's website <a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk">BBC</a> or you 
can visit the inland revenues pages at
<a href="http://www.inlandrevenue.com">Inland Revenue</a>  which will 
give you the information you need

[download]
Hope you can guide you by your self

In reply to Re: Re: Extracting href's by Anonymous Monk
in thread Extracting href's by Scott_J

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