OT - Tool to pull data from the web?

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On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:57 -0700, Charles Heselton wrote:
> Yeah.  It would depend on the data.  You might be able to use wget,
> but even with that, you may want to wrap it in a (perl) script to
> filter out the junk you don't want.
By the way, how can I write an regexp that will remove ANY junk-pattern
i find in a page with ANY ANOTHER pattern? - Doesn't matter whither it
be an href-content, simple text html-formatting tags set, etc. I write:
$content=~s#$a#$b#g;
But it behaves itself weird.

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