As previously noted your parsing is broken. If you really want to use REs something like this is *less broken* 

use LWP::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $content = get('http://www.perlmonks.com') or die $!;
$content =~ s/\s+/ /g;  # condense whitespace (optional)
my @meta = $content =~ m/<\s*meta([^>]+)>/gi;
for ( @meta ) {
    m/name\s*=\s*"([^"]+)/i     # double quotes
    || m/name\s*=\s*'([^']+)/i  # single quotes
    || m/name\s*=\s*(\S+)/i     # no quotes    
    || m/http-equiv\s*=\s*"([^"]+)/i 
    || m/http-equiv\s*=\s*'([^']+)/i 
    || m/http-equiv\s*=\s*(\S+)/i 
    || next;
    my $name = $1;

    m/content\s*=\s*"([^"]+)/i 
    || m/content\s*=\s*'([^']+)/i 
    || m/content\s*=\s*(\S+)/i 
    || next;

    $meta{$name} = $1;
}
print Dumper \%meta;

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cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: Critique/Test my first module MetaParser by tachyon
in thread Critique/Test my first module MetaParser by sulfericacid

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