perlquestion robertw <p> I want to recognize the pattern after the "while" but because the "/" is used to open and close the string to be searched for I have no idea how to make the program count how many times "<c>aug</td></c>" is in the string. Thank you so much in advance. </p> <code> $html = get("http://www.iex.nl/Aandeel-Koers/11773/$aandeel/historische-koersen.aspx?maand=0") or die "could not get http://www.iex.nl/Aandeel-Koers/11773/@_/historische-koersen.aspx"; while ($html =~ /aug</td>/g) { $count++ } print $count; </code>