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Am I going mad?
Ok... am I going mad here? Basically, the following routine *should* check to see the output of the website grabbed. In this case, it is an image grabbed from Links SQL, via jump.cgi. If the file doesn't exist, the page should contain 'Unknown' ... which the regex should pick up. For some reason though, it always returns 1! Can anyone see my boo-boo?

Code:
# routine to see if image exists...
sub check_image_exists {

my $id = $_[1];
my $field = $_[0];

my $grabbed = get("http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/vehicles/jump.cgi?ID=$id&view=$field");
$grabbed =~ s/\n//g;

my $got = 1;
if ($grabbed =~ /Unknown/si) { $got = 0; }

$got ? return 1 : return 0;

}

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