Welcome to the wonderful world of handling XML with perl.

Observation: Your basic problem is how to parse the XML data and get the desired value for a given tag.
Pointer:You can use Bundle::XML
Code:

use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; use XML::Simple; my $zipcode = '03054'; my $site1 = get 'http://beta1.accuweather.com/beta1/dtwx_initialize.a +sp?zipcode='.$zipcode; my $DTWXSetup = XMLin($site1); my $Location = $DTWXSetup->{Location}; my $UFDB = $Location->{UFDB}; my $site2 = get 'http://beta1.accuweather.com/beta1/dtwx_curcon.asp?u +fdb='.$UFDB; my $CurrentConditions = XMLin($site2); my $Temperature = $CurrentConditions->{Temperature}; print "ZIP:$zipcode\nTemperature:$Temperature\n"; XMLout();
Few Liner:
use LWP::Simple; use XML::Simple; my $zipcode = shift; print XMLin(get 'http://beta1.accuweather.com/beta1/dtwx_curcon.asp?uf +db='. XMLin(get 'http://beta1.accuweather.com/beta1/dtwx_initiali +ze.asp?zipcode='.$zipcode)->{Location}->{UFDB})->{Temperature};
Point: I wish that you will make a point to learn more XML, from sites like XML Perl.

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