I want to recognize the pattern after the "while" but because the "/" is used to open and close the string to be searched for I have no idea how to make the program count how many times "aug</td>" is in the string. Thank you so much in advance. 

$html = get("http://www.iex.nl/Aandeel-Koers/11773/$aandeel/historisch
+e-koersen.aspx?maand=0") 
or die "could not get http://www.iex.nl/Aandeel-Koers/11773/@_/histori
+sche-koersen.aspx"; 
while ($html =~ /aug</td>/g) { $count++ }
print $count;

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