The code below prints the entire line that the search is found on rather than just what I'm trying to get. It's also printing <p> and </p> to browser while I'm trying to pull back only the text rather than the codes. Anyone have any suggestions? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI qw(:all);
use Fcntl qw(:flock);
use HTTP::Request;

print header;        

open(F, "pageinfo.htm");

while(<F>)
    {
    print "$_";
    }

if(!param)
    {
 exit;    
}



$fristring = param('urlinfo');

  use LWP::UserAgent;
  $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  $ua->agent("Mozilla/5.0");  
  $ua->timeout('30');
 
  $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $fristring;
  $req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');

  $result = $ua->request($req);
   
$_ = $result->content;

$looper = 0;

while($looper < 5000)
    {
     s/</&lt;/;
        $looper++;
    }

@lines = split /\n/, $_;

print "<textarea>";

foreach $line (@lines)     {
     if($line =~ /test/) { 
$1 =~ s/<p>//gi; 
print $1;

}
    if($line =~ /meta/) { print "$line" };
    }

# print $_;

print "<\/textarea>";

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