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[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Perl question
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Ok, got a random perl question for someone.  We've got the following 
command from a script that we're trying to modify (a friend and I) to 
make use of an alternate search engine.  The below should find the 
integer total results from a search engine.

if ($result =~ /found\s+([\d,]+)\D+results/i)

The above parses the results of a web page search through AltaVista.  
I'm wanting to change it so it applies to the results from google.com 
instead.  Anyone suggestions on the proper syntax for a google search?
Altavista displays the following:

AltaVista found 28,720 results

Google displays the following:

Results 1-10 of about 102,000 .

Anyone?
Thanks!
Jason

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