Perl, SQLite3, and Parsing the Chatterbox Feed.

[DigitalKitty]

Hi all.

With help from: parv, dhoss, Fairy_Nuff, and planetscape, I started writing a chatterbox history tool for educational reasons.

use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use DBI;

my $data    = '';
my $dbh     = '';
my $url     = 'http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=207304';
my $pat     = qr{ .*<author>(.*)<\/author>.*<text>(.*)<\/text }xs;

$data       = get( $url );
$dbh        = DBI->connect( "dbi:SQLite:dbname=C:\\testdb", "", "" );

 while ( ( my($auth, $text) = ( $data =~ m/$pat/gc ) ) ) {
   for( $text ) {
       s/[ ]+/ /g;
       s/^\s+//;
       s/\s+$//;
   }
  printf "%s: %s\n\n" , $auth , $text;

  $dbh->do('insert into monks values(?,?)', undef, $auth, $text );

}

I was hoping some of you could offer suggestions regarding how I might improve the design/functionality of the (currently beta quality) program. At the present time, it only displays the most recent author/comment as opposed to several speakers and their respective comments.

I took the liberty of including my (simple) table design as well:
SQLite 3.5.6

CREATE TABLE monks( 
monk varchar(25),
comment varchar(255)
);

Thanks,
~Katie