I'm trying to create a small perl web bot to scrape a page but it endlessly just sits there until I run out of memory. Can anyone help me figure out how to fix it? 
   my @content = get("$url$cnt");
   my $content = join("\n", @content);

   push(@images, "http://www.imagebeaver.com/files/images/$1:$1") whil
+e $content =~ m#/files/images/thumb/([a-zA-Z0-9]+\.jpg)#g;

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This is a chunk of HTML on the page, I'm just trying to match the /files/images/thumb/(imagename) of the thumbnails and put them in @images 
b>Gallery 115564:</b><br><br><a href="http://www.imagebeaver.com/view.
+php?mode=gallery&g=115564&photo=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://w
+ww.imagebeaver.com/files/images/thumb/37021412066526319.jpg" border="
+0"></a> <a href="http://www.imagebeaver.com/view.php?mode=gallery&g=1
+15564&photo=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.imagebeaver.com/f
+iles/images/thumb/99821412066526320.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="htt
+p://www.imagebeaver.com/view.php?mode=gallery&g=115564&photo=3" targe
+t="_blank"><img src="http://www.imagebeaver.com/files/images/thumb/62
+341412066526321.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.imagebeaver.
+com/view.php?mode=gallery&g=115564&photo=4" target="_blank"><img src=
+"http://www.imagebeaver.com/files/images/thumb/33641412066526322.jpg"
+ border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.imagebeaver.com/view.php?mode=ga
+llery&g=115564&photo=5" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.imagebea
+ver.com/files/images/thumb/5361412066526323.jpg" border="0"></a> <a 
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