Hi to all brothers monks

i've successfully wrote a perl script that retrieve an html page, parse it and prepare,
at the end a logfile from the html page.

In order to do this, at this moment, the program does the following:

1) unlink the file from disk, if exist on disk
2) retrieve in memory the correct html page
3) write on disk the html page on a standard filename (file.html)
4) read the file on disk (file.html) and parse it
5) write on disk the logfile

What i would like to do is avoid to write the "file.html" on disk and work only
in ram, so i would like to retrieve it, NOT write it on disk, and parse it in memory.

The following are the program lines that do this:
$nomefile="file.html";  ### name of temporary filename
unlink $nomefile;       ### remove the file


$url="http://www.sitename.com/pagespecial.html";
$mech->get($url);
$mech->save_content($nomefile); ### Instr i would like to change


use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::TableExtract;
use HTML::Entities;
use Text::Unidecode;

$user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.13)
+ Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13';
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(agent => $user_agent);

my $headers = ['col1', 'col2', 'col3', 'col4', 'col5'];

my $table_extract = HTML::TableExtract->new(headers => $headers);


$table_extract->parse_file($nomefile);  ### Inst i would like to chang
+e
my ($table) = $table_extract->tables;

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Everithing works as i would, but in this way every time i parse a page
i remove and write file.html in order to parse it.

How can i do everithin in memory without writing the file?
Thanks Limner

In reply to about retrieving and parsing html without writing on disk by limner

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