On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Donald Leslie {74279} wrote:
> I tried the script and gott an error . I did a web search and found
> the following which fixed the problem .
...or again, you could use the far easier and far more effective
HTML::Parse module, like so:
To parse the HTML, you can use the HTML module:
#!/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Parse;
print parse_html(get ($ARGV[0]))->format;
You can save this version of the program under the name showurl,
make it executable, and see what happens:
% showurl http://www.ora.com/
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...pasted, again, from _Web Client Programming with Perl_,
which is, again, available in it's entirety for free at:
<http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/>
There's really no good reason to attempt a regex for this problem.
Regexes are nice hammers, but not everything is a nice nail...
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
