Greetings Monks,

I'm a Perl Novice, and I have a problem with a regex. I wanted my program to extract text from a file (which holds the content of a web page) and find a delimited string.

open(FILE1, "<raw.txt");
$text = <FILE2>;
if ($text =~ /birthdate(.*?)zodiac/i)
    {
     my $birthdate = $1;
     }
    open(FILE2, ">>births.txt");
    print FILE2 $birthdate;

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What am I doing wrong? I know this is very basic, but I've been looking for an answer and reading about regexes, to no avail.

Cheerio, Marcin

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