Rob Pengelly — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:14:00 +0000

LWP::Simple comes with activestate perl I know for sure, but I am nnto sure it if comes with the "normal perl for unix".

You can find more info about LWP::Simple by searching on cpan.org for it.

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fairhousing — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:31:00 +0000

what's the lwp module and where can one get it?

thanks in advance

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Rob Pengelly — Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:31:00 +0000

I use the
LWP::Simple module to do these.
I will give you an example of getting the latest headlines from Yahoo!

Code Sample:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl use LWP::Simple; @headlines=(); $ticker=0; $html = get("http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ts/"); while ($html =~ m/<a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/h\/nm\/(.+?)\/ts\/(.+?).html\"><b>(.+?)<\/b><\/a>/sogi) { $headline = "<a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/h\/nm\/$1\/ts\/$2.html\">$3<\/a><br>\n"; if($headline) { push(@headlines,$headline); $ticker=1; } } if($ticker==1) { open(yahoo,">yahoo.txt"); close(yahoo); open(yahoo,">>yahoo.txt"); print yahoo @headlines[0..4]; close(yahoo); }

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