Hey guys, I'm trying to pull a segment of text from a variable. In this case I am testing on CPAN and would like to pull only the HTML that is in between my $s and $e tags. My start value isn't returning a match and I'm trying to figure out 1)what I am doing wrong here and 2) what other way can I use to grab segments of code from and html page (so it is easier to parse individual nodes). Thanks monks ! 
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$mech->get("http://search.cpan.org/");
$html = $mech->content();

$s = '<center class="categories">';
$e = '</center>';

$html =~ s/\r//g;
$html =~ s/\n/ /g;

my $start = index($html,$s);

print $start;

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In reply to Grab sections of text by uni_j

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