I tried your regex but it's not pulling back a result. It comes back as "". Any idea why? The url I'm trying is http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=url:www.tek-tips.com&kl=XX&search=Search. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple;
use strict;

$|=1;

my $url = "www.tek-tips.com";
my $altavista = "http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=url:$url&kl=XX
+&search=Search";

my $content = get("$altavista");
my @lines = split /\n/, $content;

my $results;

foreach (@lines)
{
$results = $1 if $_ =~ m/Altavista found ([\d,]+) results/; 
}



print "searched: $altavista\n";
print "results: $results";

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In reply to Re: Re: Regex to match string with numbers with possible comma by Anonymous Monk
in thread Regex to match string with numbers with possible comma by Anonymous Monk

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