#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.014; use LWP::Simple; print "What day? "; my $date = <>; chomp $date; my $url = 'http://staweb.sta.cathedral.org/departments/math/mhansen/public_html/1112hcal/1112hcal.htm'|| die "Specify URL in the form 'm/dd/0yy'"; my $html = get ($url); $html =~ m{$date(.*?)(?=)}gms; print "$1 \n";