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    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use WWW::Mechanize;
    
    
    print extract_quotes(get_quotes_page());
    
    sub get_quotes_page {
    	my $links;   
        my $mech = new WWW::Mechanize;
        $mech->get( "http://bash.org/?random1" );
        $mech->success or die "Can't get the bash quote page, are you connected to the internet?  Or maybe bash is down.";
    
        my @links = $mech->find_all_links( url_regex => qr(\?[0-9]+) )
        or die "Weird error, for some reason it got the quote page, but didnt find any quotes on the page";
    
        # Use the first link
        my ( $url, $title ) = @{$links[0]};
 
      
        $mech->get( $links->[0] );
    
        return $mech->content;
    }
    
    
    
    sub extract_quotes {
        my $page = shift;
   
    
        for my $quote ( $page ) {
        my @lines = split( /<br \/>/, $quote );
        for ( @lines ) {
            s/<[^>]+>//g;   # Strip HTML tags
            s/\s+/ /g;      # Squash whitespace
            s/^ //;         # Strip leading space
            s/ $//;         # Strip trailing space
            s/&#34;/"/g;    # Replace HTML entity quotes
   
        }
        $quote = join( "\n", @lines );
        }
    
        return $page;
    }