You gotta love perl don't you. A dozen lines (with error handling!) If you want to get a login and learn some perl then I'm sure the monks will be more than willing to help you to say read in a list of usernames from file using open() and the input operator, get their year data, build a data structure, sort() the results by year and then print() the results to your screen or a file which is presumably what you have in mind. You can find out how to do all this using Tutorials and Super Search right here. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
my $username = 'dgarcia';
$username =~ s/(\W)/ uc sprintf "%%%02x", ord $1 /eg; # url encode non
+ alpanumerics
my $url     = "http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?query=username%3D$usernam
+e";
my $page    = get($url);
if ($page =~ /No matches to your query/) {
    warn "User '$username' could not be found!\n";
} else {
    my ($year) = $page =~ m/year:\s*(\d+)/;
    warn "Could not find year for user '$username'\n" unless defined $
+year;
    print "User $username is in year $year\n";
}

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cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

In reply to Re: Open Page by tachyon
in thread How to load and view and HTML page from perl (was: Open Page) by Anonymous Monk

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