in reply to how to use article() function in perl Net::NNTP module?

You don't show us what kind of problems you have, so it is hard to suggest how to proceed.

Have you looked at the demos included with Net::NNTP, especially the nntp sample? Maybe you just want to do the same, except save things into a file?

The following gives you information about the kind of data structure returned by ->article. Handling that data structure is likely best done through References Quick Reference.

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use Data::Dumper
print Dumper $nntp->article( $last );
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Re^2: how to use article() function in perl Net::NNTP module?
by zuverlassig (Novice) on Oct 21, 2013 at 10:42 UTC

    Thanks for the references.Those would definitely help at some point or other. Now, I am able to do the required task with the following code

    open(ARTICLE,">>indexer.txt") or die "Cannot open indexer.txt";
    my $data=$nntp->article(99);
    print ARTICLE @$data;
    #print ARTICLE "Completed Successfully";
    close(ARTICLE);

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    However, I want to know if there is a better way to do it using the file handle that the article() function returns. As for data dumper, it does the task as well, but the output is in pretty untidy format. And the problem I am facing is that I do not know how to use tied filehandles. Any code snippet would be highly appreciated
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      You can treat a (tied) filehandle just like any other filehandle. It acts like a filehandle, but maybe its data does reside in memory or somewhere else. As a consumer of data, you usually don't need to care about this.

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my $fh= $nntp->articlefh(...);
while( <$fh>) {
    print "Article: $_\n";
};
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        That worked very well, thanks for your help!! It was just a matter of correct syntax, which turns out to be pretty simple

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