I have a code that looks through an HTML file and grabs the code between a day, (in the code, 4/23/012), and the end of that table column. The code works when I input the day manually, but if I try to make it a variable (i.e. $date), the code breaks down. If I add quotes to the day in the code, it breaks as well. I am assuming the code breaks down because of the quotes, which must be added in when I try and use a variable. Please help! I'm so close!

use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
print "What day?";
my $date = <>;
my $url = 'http://staweb.sta.cathedral.org/departments/math/mhansen/pu
+blic_html/1112hcal/1112hcal.htm'|| die "Specify URL on the cmd line";
my $html = get ($url);
$html =~ m{4/23/012(.*?)<td width="3%" style='width:3.12%;border:none;
+padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>}gism;
print "$1\n";

use Fcntl; #The Module

print "content-type: text/html \n\n"; #The header
sysopen (HTML, 'myhtml.html', O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_CREAT, 0755);
printf HTML "$1\n"; 

close (HTML);

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In reply to Insert a variable without quotes by LaneM1234

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