Apologies for not answering your question, but I was distracted by your "blasphemous coding technique" (as you put it) - or as I'd put it - bad indentation, style, etc. Please don't place 4 separate statements on the same line!

my ($title) = /title=(".*?")/;  ($title) =~ s/"/'/g;       ($title) =~
+ s/^\s+//g;($title) =~ s/\s+$//g;
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Please properly indent things like for loops and other blocks. This is just one example, but you really lose a lot of information/visual cues that can help make heads or tails out of your code.

foreach $i(0 .. $#fields) {
s/^\s+//, s/\s+$// for $fields[$i];
#print "\$fields[$i]:$fields[$i] \n";
}
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Honestly, it's not that difficult to clean things up manually - but if you just can't coerce yourself into some structure, at the very least, please run your code through perltidy. I (and perhaps many others) won't read your code, much less help you on it, otherwise.

$,=42;for(34,0,-3,9,-11,11,-17,7,-5){$*.=pack'c'=>$,+=$_}for(reverse s
+plit//=>$*
){$%++?$ %%2?push@C,$_,$":push@c,$_,$":(push@C,$_,$")&&push@c,$"}$C[$#
+C]=$/;($#C
>$#c)?($ c=\@C)&&($ C=\@c):($ c=\@c)&&($C=\@C);$%=$|;for(@$c){print$_^
+$$C[$%++]}
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