per the advice given to me, i added $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; after my variable declaration. The fixed the previous error (thanks so much)However, now my problem lies within my regex. Here's the updated code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Headers;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my(@ListingsUrls, $req, $ua, $responsecode, $res, $row, $url);
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

    $url = "http://listings.test.com/aw/listings/list/category12";
    $request = new HTTP::Request('GET',$url);
    $ua->timeout(10);
    $response = $ua->request($request);
    my $responsecode = $response->code();
     next if $responsecode != 200;
                    
         
        @ARRAY_OF_LINES = (split "\n", $ua->request($request)->as_stri
+ng);
         $request->as_string;
         foreach $row (@ARRAY_OF_LINES) {
        chomp($row);
        print $row . "\n";
        }
        if ($row =~ (/Updated\s*:\s*\w+\s*-\s*\d{1,2}:\d{1,2}\d{1,2}\s
+* PST/)){
            print $1;
                        }else{
                            print "html didn't contain Updated";
                            }

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I added a print statement to $row and i can see what i am looking for(this is an excerpt from my console when the line print $row is executed): 
<tr>
        <td>
        <p></p><br>
<center>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="-1">
<b>Updated: Mar-11 23:05:50 PST</b>

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Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
thnx, Ray

In reply to Re: my code error-ing out trying to grab html by RayRay459
in thread my code error-ing out trying to grab html by RayRay459

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