reading hosted files

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Re: reading hosted files by Enlil (Parson) on Oct 25, 2002 at 00:18 UTC
You might want to look at the module LWP and there are some further examples of use here, but you probably want to get the site directory first parse through it, getting a list of the .txt files and then get each one in turn, while searching them. If you can ftp to the site it might be easier to parse though anyhow by using Net::FTP and get a listing of the files and FTP them over for further use. -enlil	[reply]
Re: reading hosted files by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Oct 25, 2002 at 17:22 UTC
Something like this... `perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'print map { "$_\n"} grep { m/UMa/ } split "\n" +=> get( "http://concam.net/kp/kp021020/kp021020ut112957x.txt" )'` [download] Where the `grep` regex defines what you're searching for. _______________ DamnDirtyApe Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. --Friedrich Nietzsche	[reply] [d/l] [select]