Unfortunately, the actual pages are arbitrarily long and include multiple days of homework. So there is not a link pattern per day. So what I need to do is download the website's code, search through it to find the date I'm looking for (i.e. "4/23/012") and then copy not only the matched string but a little more of the code so that the assignment is included. I have so far been able to get 
my $url = 'http://staweb.sta.cathedral.org/departments/math/mhansen/pu
+blic_html/1112hcal/1112hcal.htm';
use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get $url;
die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;

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So I am able to get the downloaded html code but don't know how to then find the information I am looking for (the date and the assignment) and then copy that into a new txt file. And no, not a HW assignment. School's out for summer!

In reply to Re: Getting Text from Website by LaneM1234
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