Yikes! Like I said, go easy on me! (hehe)

What I get from this is that you are demonstrating that there is absolutley no difference between assigning to a variable and searching for the string alone. Please do correct me if I am wrong, I am but a lowly initiate. (Translated: recv(MONASTERY,$enlightenment,$daily,0); credit to saint MZSanford's Monk Levels)

Did you try to run the source I posted? The reason I came in search of the Monk's wisdom is because it seems completley illogical as to why it would work one way and not the other.

If you run the code and recieve "No match on Whateveritemitisthatifound (http://urlforthatitem)" then it wasn't able to match.
If you get "No Change" or "Changed from XX.XX to XX.XX" then the regex was working fine.
I know I could just put these strings right into the if, but I was hoping to make this script more dynamic, and eventually just have my separate websites as header files that are parsed and automatically run by one central program... But baby steps, baby steps.

Ok, thats enough rambling from me for now, thank you all for your help to current, and I cant wait to hear more suggestions. (Even if it is "this code worked fine on my machine!")

In reply to Re^2: Updated: Perl & Regex by Kzin
in thread Perl & Regex by Kzin

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