I am a high school student (and a perl newbie) and I want to write a program to download my grades from the sites where they are posted. My goal is to print the overall grade. This is what I have so far (for history): 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Obliterate qw(extirpate_html);

$url="where my grades are.html";

$mypage=get($url);

my $q=extirpate_html( $mypage );

open OUT, ">/home/jesse/Desktop/grades/history.txt";

select OUT;

print $q;

close OUT;

open(GRADE, "/home/jesse/Desktop/grades/history.txt");

$. = 0;
do { $history = <GRADE> } until $. == 32 || eof;  #32 is the line with
+ my grade

print $history
close(GRADE);

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This actually works fairly well for english, but when I try it with my history grade it doesn't work at all. If I open history.txt, it shows all the information from the web page. Yet with a simple test in perl... 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Obliterate qw(extirpate_html);

$url="where my grades are.html";

$mypage=get($url);

my $y=extirpate_html( $mypage );

print $y;

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...I see that only a garbled bit of the information is really saved as $y. How can I read the whole thing if only part is saved? Is this information not really there?

In reply to Perl doesn't read whole file by colonelcrayon

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