Just as a little project, I'm trying to write a script which prints the latest updates from Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Here's what I have so far: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

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

$url="http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/hvostatus.php";

$mypage=get($url);

my $q=extirpate_html( $mypage );

open OUT, ">/home/jesse/Desktop/Programs/vol.txt" or die $!;

select OUT;

print $q;

close OUT;

open IN, "</home/jesse/Desktop/Programs/ups.txt" or die $!;
select IN;

foreach $line (<IN>) {
        if ($line =~ /^Last 24 hours/) {
            print $line;
        }
}
close IN;

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This should print the lines describing the last 24 hours of activity - but doesn't. The part which downloads the info and pastes it in a text file works flawlessly. It's clearly the search portion which doesn't work. Any ideas about what's going on?

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