Very CutE !!! Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Corr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "shirish doshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:10 PM Subject: Re: Help for telnet using perl
> At 2:49 PM -0800 1/15/03, shirish doshi wrote: > >Hi, > > I am a novice in Perl and I want to implement > >telnet in perl. If you have any tutorials or source > >code available with you , please forward me. > >Thanking you in advance, > >Regards, > >Shirish > > Shirish, > > Perl has the Net::Telnet module: > > http://search.cpan.org/author/JROGERS/Net-Telnet-3.03/ > > Below, I'll include an example I created following the module's > example in its manpage. This example doesn't require a username and > password. Most of the information you need will be in the manpage. > Once you install the module, use 'perldoc Net::Telnet' to read it. > > Paul > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > # get_weather.pl > # > # This script connects to the Weather Underground site and > # retrieves a brief weather report for the designated city. > # [Based on example in Net::Telnet POD. Added config section and > # line ending substitution statement before output. -- PJC] > > use strict; > > use Net::Telnet; > > # # # Begin Config # # # > my $url = "rainmaker.wunderground.com"; > my $city_code = "PHL"; # Philadelphia, PA, USA > # # # End Config # # # > > my($forecast, $t); > > use Net::Telnet (); > $t = new Net::Telnet; > $t->open($url); > > ## Wait for first prompt and "hit return". > $t->waitfor('/continue:.*$/'); > $t->print(""); > > ## Wait for second prompt and respond with city code. > $t->waitfor('/city code.*$/'); > $t->print($city_code); > > ## Read and print the first page of forecast. > ($forecast) = $t->waitfor('/[ \t]+press return to continue/i'); > > # replace orig. line ending with Mac EOL char. > $forecast =~ s/\015?\012/\015/g; # DOS/UNIX to Mac [PJC] > > print $forecast; > > exit; > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
