RE: PerlMonks Newest 10 Nodes Grabber

Nice Snippet, I really should get into LWP::Simple. One thing I noticed though.

(reverse sort {$a <=> $b }keys %node)[0..9]
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Can be achived without the explicit reverse just by changing the order of $a and $b in the sort subroutine.

(sort {$b <=> $a }keys %node)[0..9]
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Sorry to be pedantic, it was bugging me :)

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RE: RE: PerlMonks Newest 10 Nodes Grabber by httptech (Chaplain) on May 05, 2000 at 00:10 UTC
Yeah, but we can throw most of that snippet out the window now, as Vroom has told me about http://perlmonks.org/headlines.rdf So here is the rewritten snippet. (Note that it now retrieves 12 headlines instead of 10. Or how many ever Vroom decides to put into headlines.rdf) `use LWP::Simple; $/ = undef; my $slurp = get("http://www.perlmonks.org/headlines.rdf"); push @node, [$1,$2] while $slurp =~ /<item>\s<title\s>([^<])<\/title>\s<link\s>([^< +])/gio; print map { "<a href=\"$_->[1]\">$_->[0]</a>\n" } @node;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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RE: RE: PerlMonks Newest 10 Nodes Grabber
by httptech (Chaplain) on May 05, 2000 at 00:10 UTC

So here is the rewritten snippet. (Note that it now retrieves 12 headlines instead of 10. Or how many ever Vroom decides to put into headlines.rdf)

use LWP::Simple;
$/ = undef;
my $slurp = get("http://www.perlmonks.org/headlines.rdf");
push @node, [$1,$2]
  while $slurp =~ /<item>\s*<title\s*>([^<]*)<\/title>\s*<link\s*>([^<
+]*)/gio;
print map { "<a href=\"$_->[1]\">$_->[0]</a>\n" } @node;
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