Just for now anyway I think I will try my second idea, just to see if it works as I plan. Can anyone give me a snippet to read from $content the top section and bottom section (both being stored in $1 and $2) that's separated by

<!-- SCRIPT TEMPLATE BREAKS HERE -->
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?

I need everything above that line stored as $1, everything below as $2.

My best attempt would be

use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get("http://www.url.com/scripttemplate.shtml");

my $breakline = "<!-- SCRIPT TEMPLATE BREAKS HERE -->";

while ($content)
{
  $content =~ /(.*)$breakline(.*)/);
}
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