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Hi Matt, A very Good Morning, Need a small Info for my problem.
I have a directory named "X" which has many sub directories
"Y","Z","W" and many files about 20 , and these sub directories also
contain some more sub directories and files in them and those sub

I am new to perl and attempting to write a script that will do a reverse dns
lookup on an ip, store this result into a file, then read the file in order
to do a whois lookup. The whois lookup answer should also be written to a
seperate file. I have the reverse dns lookup working, ...

Thank you to all who helped me get a 6 digit date into perl. I
certainly heed warnings about not using outside system calls in perl
however, I have to make an outside call again.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

My problem is to match HTML tags with RegExp. I managed to match something like
this, properly:
la la la <p>a paragraph</p> bla bla bla <p>another paragraph</p> ya ya ya
But when nested, there arises problems: