Ive written a script to grab some files using LWP::Simple. The files are just plain text files which are part of a database for another site of mine.

The script seems to get the files fine, but im getting quite a few, and it rarely gets them all. Is there any way I can make the script wait until the file has definitely got the file before moving on?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but ive not used the LWP::Simple module before.

Heres some of the code I have:

$sectionsurl = "http://www.url.com/data/faqdata/sections.toc";
$headerurl = "http://www.url.com/data/settings/header.txt";
$settingsurl = "http://www.url.com/data/settings/settings.txt";

# print out the settings area
$settingstext = get($settingsurl);
@settings = split(/\n/,$settingstext);

foreach $setting (@settings)
{
   print "[".$setting."]<br>";
}

# print out the header text
$headertext = get($headerurl);
$headertext =~ s/\n/\<br\>/ig;
print $headertext;

print "<br><br><hr><br><br>";

# print out the faq index

$allsections = get($sectionsurl);
@sections = split(/\n/,$allsections);

foreach $section (@sections)
{
   print "[".$section."]<br>";
}

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Sometimes everything will display, and sometimes only one of the files will display. Id appreciate any advice.

In reply to Randomly working script using LWP::Simple by RobTuck

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