The error you got was because one line got wrapped by PM, I've added a few line breaks so nothing wraps now. In your original code there was three things that jumped out at me. The first was a 'local $/;', you aren't doing anything with IO so that doesn't do anything. The second is your use of 'split "<br>",...', You are using that on the text only version which will not have any html in it so it is just assigning the text to $lines[0]. Also you split on "<br>" later which won't do anything because the original split would have gotten all of the <br>'s anyway. The third is your regex for getting $goodlines, it will only match against a string that hasn't been broken up into lines, which means your split has to fail for that regex to work. Anyway, hope you can get it to work, and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Tedrek

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