I have a short career in Perl, compared to everyone else around here. In my time I have noticed that one of the most useful and convenient things is to grab stuff off webpages and have a Perl script print only the information you want neatly in an understandable form: Weather, stocks, lottery, news, etc.

I know that the easiest way to get the whole page is through the LWP::Simple module with the get method.

I have a problem though. Whenever I try to make a script that fetches something off the web it either returns undefined or it does nothing like I want it to. So now I ask you:
What suggestions do you have for me to: I think that this information could really widen the usage of Perl because I haven't seen much writing on it and its so useful and varied.

Oh yes, please include little snippets to help me understand a little, I'm a little bullheaded at times. :-) Thank you all!

Wanna be perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian
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In reply to Grabbing data from webpages by damian1301

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