PERL Programming - Text extraction

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Text extraction

newhorizonz

2005-11-12, 5:47 pm

I have a small script that use the LWP::Simple module to read a page on a website to a variable $content. This page contains a list of Euro currency conversions and I need to extract the current exchange rate against British Pounds so that I can use it in calculations on my website.

The value I want is about halfway down the html page in a table consisting of 3 columns:

GBP Pound Sterling 0.6731

Can anyone please advise how I can use Perl to scan the page contents for this piece of information and extract it out to a file.

Thanks
Alan

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