in reply to Parsing variable

Easy:

for my $line (split /\n/, $content){ # Insert your code here }

Personally, I prefer to slurp HTML into a single string and then use regexes to do whatever I need to it. HTML entities are often split across multiple lines, so treating it line-wise is problematic.

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