Finding a string in a webpage

donfreenut has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This may be an inordinately stupid question.

I'm getting a webpage with LWP::UserAgent, and I want to look for a string in the response. What's the fastest/best way to do this?

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Re: Finding a string in a webpage by arturo (Vicar) on Jan 30, 2001 at 01:31 UTC
Alternative: use `lynx -dump [url]` and search through that with a regex. That way you don't run into messy issues of whether the text is part of a tag or not. You can also, if you're doing a complexish search, employ HTML::Parser or one of its subclasses in such a routine. Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Finding a string in a webpage by KM (Priest) on Jan 30, 2001 at 01:28 UTC
Use a regular expression. Read perlre, and Mastering Regular Expressions. Cheers, KM	[reply]