Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks, I am new to perl and have an interesting project I would like to try. When I was in school (just graduated) I wrote a 'search engine' in Java. The program would take a URL and a word as command line args, go grab the html for that url and search for the word (all the while building a linked list) and print the number of time the word was encountered. How about the same program in perl? Any hints or wisdom is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Re: web search
by grep (Monsignor) on Feb 24, 2002 at 23:41 UTC

    In the spirit of not reinventing good wheels (good laziness), I would recommend Perlfect Search

    Features:
  • Open Source and free (beer-wise)
  • asyncronous (saves good clock-cycles)
  • Highly customizable


    • IOW "It's a twist off - you don't need a church key" - Mighty Mighty Bosstones

    grep
    grep> grep clue /home/users/*
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