ok, i wrote this code, just a simple regex thing to extract the "Location" data. Here it is: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use LWP::Simple;

#program starts
$totalAdress = "http://www.foobar.com/htmlschuff/data.html";

$content = get($totalAdress) || die "doesn't seem to be a valid adress
+: $!";

#Location
$start = "<p><b>Location:</b>\n";
$end = "<p>";
if ($content =~ /\b$start\b(.*?)\b$end\b/) {
    $Location = $1;
    print $Location;
}
print "\ndone\n";

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And it won't work. Now I'm a newbie, ok. So its probably that the regex cant take variables but I'm not sure. All i get when i use this code against a real page that has the same data as the original example and this is the program output: 
$./thecode.pl

done
$

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Any idea, I'm sure its some newbie mistake but it beats me.

In reply to Re: So Simple, Yet no tutorial covers it by Jrchak
in thread So Simple, Yet no tutorial covers it by Jrchak

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