Look into the LWP library, specifically LWP::Simple. If you are planning on doing this recurisively to the whole site rather than just one page, you will also want to read up on references and stacks and stuff like that.

To summarize, a stack is a list of things to be processed. They usually are one of two types: First in Last out, or Last in First out. I believe most recursive programming is used with the latter type.

# from the command line $ perldoc perlref $ perldoc LWP::Simple $ perldoc perldata

Update - Edited stack types. Thanks for the catch Mr. Muskrat ;0)



Amel

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