UPDATED, added sample code instead of just pointing to CPAN.

First pointer, use strict! Then you see that you really want: 

my $data = get . . . .
$data =~  . . . .

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instead of assigning the output of get() to $_.

Here, try this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $data = get ("http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/index.html");
my ($wanted) = $data =~ /<!-+PETROLEUM-+>\s*(.*)\s*<map\s+name="BbgELo
+gin2">/s;

open (FH,'>file.txt') || die $!; # > creates a new file, >> appends
print FH $wanted;
close FH;    # not really necessary in this simple script

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$wanted should have what you want. Use \s instead of a litteral space. \s catches newlines and tabs as well. Also, you need the 's' modifier instead of 'm'.

I recommend you use a parser, such as HTML::Parser, or possibly HTML::TokeParser. It takes a little time to learn the interface to these modules, but that time is well invested, as you will ultimately save more time and hair.

Jeff 

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: Pulling HTML off another site problem by jeffa
in thread Pulling HTML off another site problem by Whitey

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