I am building a very simple html-file parser, where I want to retrieve the contents of a single, well-formatted file. It's not dynamic yet, as I'm still struggling with a, perhaps very simple, problem.
Specifically, I can't end a loop.. Some code is provided below. The problematic part is the "while ($html)"-part.
Parsing static files is not problematic (with "while (<>)"), but as soon as I'm looping through this retrieved html-file, it's causing an endless loop.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Also: this is my first post to perlmonks, so be gentle, dear monks! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Get urls from result page
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
my ($html, $url);
my $count = 0;
$html = get("http://localhost:8080/html.htm") or die "Couldn't fetch p
+age.";
while($html) # <- Problematic part..
{
$html =~ m{<(a class=\"smallV110\" href=\"/)(.*?)\">} || die "couldn't
+ match"; #match regexp and capture backreference to $2, or die with e
+rror
$url = $2;
print "$url\n";
$count++;
print "$count\n";
}

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In reply to Ending a loop of content of LWP's get-function by turbolofi

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