I would love your advice on this problem. I have a small script that isn't working. What I want it to do is to pull data from .html pages on my website. I want to put a start tag and end tag in the other .html files so I know what data I want copied to my new .html file. Here is the code. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

$start_pattern = '<!-- start section-->';
$end_pattern = '<!-- end section -->';
@files_to_look_in = ("/path/to/files1.html", "/path/to/files2.html");

$write_line = 0;
while(@files_to_look_in)
{
    open(HTM_FILE, <$_);
    while(<HTM_FILE>)
    {
        if($_=~/$start_pattern/i)
        {
            $write_line = 1;
        }
        if($_=~/$end_pattern/i)
        {
            $write_line = 0;
        }
        if($write_line =~ '1')
        {
            print "$_\n";
        }
    }
}

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Any help would greatly be appreciated. I have tested this, and it doesn't work. I do not get any errors. Nothing shows up. Thanks Dean Update: Thank you. I got it working. There was a line of code missing for html print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

20040329 Edit by castaway: Changed title from 'Perl Monks - what am I doing wrong?'

In reply to Grabbing part of an HTML page by kingdean

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