Hello EagerforPerl,

Your program does not compile: 

Global symbol "$directory" requires explicit package name (did you for
+get to declare "my $directory"?) at 1201637.pl line 25.
Global symbol "$directory" requires explicit package name (did you for
+get to declare "my $directory"?) at 1201637.pl line 26.
1201637.pl had compilation errors.

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This is because the unless block creates scope around the contents of the block outside which the lexically declared variables are not accessible: 
$ perl -Mstrict -wlE 'unless (0) { my $foo = 42 }; say $foo'

Global symbol "$foo" requires explicit package name (did you forget to
+ declare "my $foo"?) at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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If I change the code for opening the directory to: 
opendir my $directory, 'C:\\Program Files\\OSNE' or
    die("Unable to open directory 'C:\\Program Files\\OSNE'\n");

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... then I get a warning: 
Name "main::OUTPUT" used only once: possible typo at 1201637.pl line 3
+4.
1201637.pl syntax OK

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This is because you open your filehandle as $output but try to use it as OUTPUT ...

Also please consider that most websites don't appreciate repeated or frequent polling; I would recommend no more than a daily check if you simply want to see whether a site has new pages.


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Help with Web Scraping Script by 1nickt
in thread Help with Web Scraping Script - Updated by EagerforPerl

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