I agree, Lynx -dump makes life a lot easier (lazyness being my personal favourite virtue!). On the other hand, I'm not doing anything complex with the page... anyway, here's a simple example...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Mail::Mailer;

my $recipient ="my email address";
my $sender = "trains\@myhost.co.uk";
my $subject = "trains";

my $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new("sendmail");
$mailer->open({From => $sender,
                To => $recipient,
                'Content-Type' => "text/plain",
                Subject => $subject }) or die "can't open sendmail";

open (LYNX,'lynx -dump http://www.londontransport.co.uk/rt_home.shtml 
+|');

while (<LYNX>) {
        s/(\[.*\])//g ;
        print $mailer $_ if (/Real time news/ .. /References/);
}

close(LYNX);

$mailer->close();
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(the regexp with the square brackets just gets rid of the image text, otherwise you get a certain amount of '[spacer.gif]')

andy.