I'm using LWP to get a page, everything is working there. But I am having trouble matching the lines of HTML. The script works fine if I'm fetching with LWP, but when I switched the pipe to DATA it does nothing, I have included it just so you can see a sample of what I am trying to read.

The main problem is that the script is only finding the first match (pam anderson). I started out just trying to match in the first text document, in the table row, but I actually want to record all the information between the text documents, so my log reads:

Pam Anderson|Stacked|nc|#1|images/hof.gif|295
Paris Hilton|Nicole Out|nc|#2|images/hof.gif|65

#!/perl/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Simple;

$getURL = "http://localhost/~owner/50.htm";

$script_name = "Fetcher";

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

$page_data;
$content_type;
$request;
$response;
$fiftypath = "data/fifty.dat";
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(10);
$ua->agent("$script_name");
$request = HTTP::Request->new('GET',$getURL);
$response = $ua->request($request);

#@page_data = $response->content;

@page_data = <DATA>;

foreach $line (@page_data) {
    if ($line =~ /class=\"fifty\">([^<]+)<\/a>/) {
        open (LOG,">>$fiftypath");
        flock(LOG, 2);
        print LOG "$1";
        flock(LOG, 8);
        close(LOG);
        print "$1";
    }
}

__DATA__
<table>
<tr>
<td valign="middle"><b><font size="2">1</font></b> </td>
<td valign="middle"><a href="http://localhost/~owner/pam.htm" class="t
+itle">Pam Anderson</a><br>Stacked</td>
<td align="center" width="50">nc</td>
<td align="center" width="50">#1</td>
<td valign="middle" width="50%"><img src="images/hof.gif" width="15" h
+eight="14" border="0" hspace="2"></td>
<td valign="middle" width="50%">295</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="middle"><b><font size="2">1</font></b> </td>
<td valign="middle"><a href="http://localhost/~owner/paris.htm" class=
+"title">Paris Hilton</a><br>Nicole Out</td>
<td align="center" width="50">nc</td>
<td align="center" width="50">#2</td>
<td valign="middle" width="50%"><img src="images/hof.gif" width="15" h
+eight="14" border="0" hspace="2"></td>
<td valign="middle" width="50%">65</td>
</tr>
</table>

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