Here is my code

use LWP::UserAgent;
use feature 'say';

my $todaysQuoteStr = ' data-reactid="49"><span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b
+) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) D(ib)" data-reactid="50">';
$todaysQuoteStr =~ quotemeta($todaysQuoteStr); ## I believe this escap
+es all characters that need to be escaped

my $url = 'https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL?p=AAPL&.tsrc=fin-srch'
+;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
$ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.
+36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36');

my $response = $ua->request($req);
#die $response->code if ! $response->is_success;
$string = $response->decoded_content;

say "\t\t\t=>searching for todays quote pattern [$todaysQuoteStr]";   
+ 

if ($string =~ m/$todaysQuoteStr/) {
    my $quoteStr = substr $string, $position, 20;
    my @quotes   = split(/<\/span>/,$quoteStr);
    $price = $quotes[0];
    say "\t\t\t[price = $price]"; 
} else {
    say "\t\t\t pattern not found";
}
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What is interesting is that when I view the source of html in the browser and search for the pattern I do get a match but programmatically it is not working. Obviously I am doing something wrong...but unable to troubleshoot. Any help would be much appreciated.