Interesting... Fetching a page using the get method from LWP::Simple is alot faster than what I was doing... I guess I should have taken the advice and gone with that in the first place.

Looks like the solution here is to re-write the whole thing to use LWP::Simple, use threads to do it all at once, and call it a day!

Thanks for the great help everyone.

By the way (Martin) is there a page/discussion somewhere about /why/ "The general advice is not to use a regex to parse/manipulate HTML/XML...".

I'd be curious to know more about that. Basically all I'm doing is taking a few numbers and things like that out of the pages, not trying to do something to all the html tags. I'll check out those modules/pages anyway though.

Thanks!

In reply to Re^4: My first socket program is SLOW? by ttlgreen
in thread My first socket program is SLOW? by ttlgreen

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