in reply to Parsing News from a Site Backend

Something like this works fine. Its tested.
#!/usr/bin/perl undef $/; my $text=<STDIN>; my @data=split(/%%\n/,$text); my ($headline,$datetime,$url,$desc); foreach (@data) { ($headline,$datetime,$url,$desc)=split(/\n/,$_); print <<EOF; Headline: $headline <BR> Date and Time: $datetime<BR> URL: $url<BR> Desc: $desc<BR> EOF next; }

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Jay "Yohimbe" Thorne, alpha geek for UserFriendly