note that getprint prints the fetched information and returns a status code (update: you'll want get(), instead). Also note that =~ s/// does an inplace search & replace and returns the number of replaces. Also also note that =~ will do the replace on the url first and then pass the number of matches to the getprint() routine. You'll want to use more parentheses to avoid this kind of confusion.

1) Apply this regex to the current value of $urls - or die. Since this is not going to be a match, the die happens. When you ask for a return from a regex in scalar context you get a true or false return. You should be getting falses and thus dying.

2) If the die() wasn't there, you'd be returning nothing to the getprint() call, in which case it would try to hit that URL, which would return nothing also.

What you're likely really wanting to do is to get the HTML from the URL and then apply the regex, right? So, in that case, use get() to retrieve the HTML into a variable and then apply your regex to that. Don't forget to use the /s modifier to cross newlines. I suppose you could do it in one line without the temp variable, but it's more clear to use the variable.

So - what's your question? Does the code you have not work how you want it to - if so, what's going wrong?

I haven't used those modules recently myself, but I'm guessing that you need to fetch the page, *then* do the regexp matching and print the result. But maybe not. It's been a while.

Just from looking at it (haven't tried running it), it looks as though the code you have will try to fetch the result of running the regexp on each of your URL strings - which won't match, so you're asking it to fetch an empty list. Kinda guessing here though, really.

Best wishes,
andye

It does not work. I can get all the html to print to stdout but can't funnel it into the regex.

That's because getprint() prints the html to stdout. it does not return the HTML. As I wrote below, you want get() for that.
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use LWP::Simple;
@divs = map m{<div class=ipm8rpt>([^<]*)</div>}i, map { get $_ }
        'http://uptimemgr/saved/1358381265931.htm',
        'http://uptimemgr/saved/1375561135115.htm',
        'http://uptimemgr/saved/1388446037003.htm'
        ;
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