Newbie daft as a brush question

[duggie-belfast-pm at blackstar.co.uk]

On (14/01/02 18:50), Dan _ wrote:
> 
> 
> I am new to perl and am trying to open an html document form the web
> using perl & DOS.
> 
> open (netfile, "//www.kjh.com/webpage.html");
> 
> doesnt seem to do anything, I know this is quite innaine, but I guess 
> someone has to be the butt of the jokes

Hi Dan

You probably want to use something like LWP::Simple.  It allows you to
fetch the contents of a web page so that you can then do things with it.
Here's a really short script to show you how it's used.


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

# store the contents of the page as $feed 
my $feed = get('http://www.kjh.com/webpage.html') || 
  die "Can't fetch that page :(\n";

# to write it to a file, you can do this: 
open(NETFILE, "> netfile.html") || die "Can't open the output file!\n";
print NETFILE $feed;
close(OUT);


I hope this helps you out.

Thanks
Duggie

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