How can I make an HTTP GET request from Perl?

Question

I\'m trying to write my first Perl program. If you think that Perl is a bad language for the task at hand tell me what language would solve it better.

The program tests

Answer 1

As for the parsing markup with regular expressions part of your question, DON'T!

http://htmlparsing.icenine.ca explains some of the reasons why you shouldn't do this. Although what you're seemingly attempting to parse seems simple, use a proper parser.

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http://www.cwhitener.com/htmlparsing