this isn't a clean solution by any stretch of the imagination. one of the apps i'm dealing with the previous designer fetches a page from another server using LWP, dumps it into a variable, and passes that variable into a (badly done) HTML::Template::load_tmpl wrapper.

while i'd love to spend the time cleaning it up, i just need to fix a display problem right now. because the headers are fetched, all the CSS information also gets fetched ( along w/ title, etc ), and it's blowing up the display.

here's what i've been trying to do, without much success: 


## dummy URL
my $out = get("http://www.webpage.com");
                                                                      
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$out =~ s/\cM//g;

## doesn't seem to match 
$out =~ s#^<head>[\w|\s]+</head>#<!-- header removed -->#mio;
$out =~ s/<head>(.*?)</head>#<!-- header removed -->/im;
                                                                      
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## these work ... but only take out one line
#$out =~ s#<html>#<!-- header removed -->#mi;
#$out =~ s#<title>(.*)</title>#<!-- header removed -->#mi;
#$out =~ s#<meta(.*)>#<!-- header removed -->#mi;

## also doesn't work
$out =~ s#<style type(.*?)</style>#<!-- header removed -->#im;

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there may be a better, non-regex way ( and i'm open to suggestions ), but it seemed a brute force regex answer would be quick ....

In reply to strip header from page fetched w/ LWP by geektron

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