regex question

[Jason Crowe]

Gene Dascher wrote:

> I always escape all non-alphanum characters (i.e., < ).  Also, your 
> code won't place the found value in $content, it checks the
> value of $content to match the regex.  You need to do something like 
> this:
>
>
> if ($content ~= m/Current 
> bid:n</font>n</td>n.+n<.+$([0-9.,]+)</) {
>     $content = $1;
> }
>
> I just tested this and it works fine.
>
> Gene
>  
>
It doesn't seem to work for me. For the most part it's the same as what 
I had. Here is more of the script to show what I am starting with. The 
currently variable is never getting set.

if($ARGV[0]) {
 $content = 
get("http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=$ARGV[0]");
 $content =~ s/r//g;
 if($content ~= m/Current 
bid:n</font>n</td>n.+n<.+$([0-9.,]+)</) {
   $currently = $1;
   $currently =~ s/,//g;
 }

Thanks,
Jason