Hello again. So here's the deal, I use LWP::Simple to get a web page, then I use HTML::Strip to remove all the markup tags. I am left with a workable text file with maybe a little too much whitespace.
Now the problems start. If I now read this file into an array and then try to grep the array index, it just doesn't work. I'm guessing it is all that whitespace messing things up.
Is there any hope for me?
#! /usr/bin/perl

#fetch the webpage
my $url = 'http://www.foo';
   

  use LWP::Simple;
  my $content = get $url;
  die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;

print $content;
#strip the tags
use HTML::Strip;

  my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();

  my $clean_text = $hs->parse( $content );
  $hs->eof;
#write to file
$append = 0;
if ($append)
 {
 open(MYOUTFILE, ">clean_text"); #open for write, overwrite
 }
else
 {
 open(MYOUTFILE, ">>clean_text"); #open for write, append
 }


#read the file into an array
open(MYINPUTFILE, "<clean_text"); # open for input
my(@lines) = <MYINPUTFILE>; # read file into list

#so far so good, but check below for the troubles.


my $search = 'foo';
my @where = grep { $lines[$_] eq $search } 0 .. $#lines;


print @where;

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will return nothing at all.
The stripped file looks something like below.

    464



      02



  18/03/07
        ST / "Turf" / "B+2"

Edit: g0n - code tags

In reply to html into an array by monkeybus

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