As far as your first question goes, what exactly do you mean by "It won't even let me type a URL in"? That is, I've never seen a program physically prevent you from typing, so the question is what does it do when you do try to type into it? I'd suggest trying to chomp $url_name before using it.

For your second question, I think the problem you're facing is that print allows multiple arguments, and you're passing it two (the text to print, and then a newline). That's fine for print, but you can't assign both of those to a single scalar. If you change that to 

my $stripped_html = $parser->get_trimmed_text()."\n";
print $stripped_html;

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it should do what you want.

In reply to Re: Strange way a string or array works by Eimi Metamorphoumai
in thread Strange way a string or array works by lampros21_7

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