"..get the description being shown in "quotation marks" ?"

Oh, I hadn't noticed that... you need to change line 46 to read:

my $out = qq(var adeldesc = "$adeldesc"\n);
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"how do I get the script to write to /home/aml33704/public_html/"

Well, you simply change the destination in the open statement to include the full path to the file. I'd do something like this:

my $outfile = '/home/aml33704/public_html/weather.js';
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open W, ">", $outfile or die "Could not open $outfile for writing:$!\n
+";
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Cheers,
Darren :)

(By the way, which address do I mail my invoice to?) ;)

You're the man Darren, Thanks a bunch, everything working fine!...this script really bugged me. I am happy to shout you a drink when you're in Adelaide. I would also be happy to paypal some appreciation for your efforts. cheers, pip

Hi Darren, I was just wondering ...when the script outputs its description, only the 1st line of the sentence is displayed, even so the bom txt (sometimes) contains another line. Example: Script output: Fine and cool to mild day with increasing high cloud. Light winds, chiefly BOM txt output: Fine and cool to mild day with increasing high cloud. Light winds, chiefly northeast to northwest. Question: Is it possible to display all of the description, regardles if 1 or 2 sentences, and have 'precis' act as the 'full stop'of the description? cheers, pip

This is Perl - easy things are easy, and difficult things are possible ;)

Okay, this is a fairly dirty hack - but it should do the trick. You need to change the for loop that extracts the information from the @lines array to look like this:

for my $line (@lines) {
    if ($line =~ /^Forecast for/ && !$adeldesc) {
        while ($lines[$cnt++] ne "") {
            $adeldesc .= " $lines[$cnt]";
        }
    }

    if ($line =~ /^([\w\s]+):.*?Max\s+(\d+)/) {
        $cities{$1}{max} = $2;
    }
    $cnt++;
}
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The change is the insertion of the while loop at the top, which basically says: "If the next line is not blank, append its contents to the $desc variable. (There always appears to be a blank line before the precis forecast).

This gives me the following output:

var adeldesc = " Fine, with high cloud. Cool to mild with light to mod
+erate northeast to northwest winds. "
var mtbkmax = "15"
var noarmax = "16"
var adelmax = "17"
var elizmax = "17"
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Cheers,
Darren :)