use strict; use WWW::Mechanize; use LWP::Simple; use URI; my $url='edgar/data/1750/0001104659-06-059326-index.html'; my $web='www.sec.gov/Archives/'.$url; my @temp=split(/\//,$url); chomp($web); my $rel_url='/'.$temp[2].'/'.$temp[3]; my $base_url='www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data'; my $abs_url=URI->new_abs($rel_url,$base_url); my $text=get($abs_url) or die $!;