I couldn't resist posting this here -- even though it's at best a code snippet, and I'm less than a duffer, ranker than an armchair -- just cuz the context is so appropriate, in a self-referential sort of way. (Notwithstanding the inadequacies, at least it's short.)

It's a little script to download the cumulative "Cool Uses for Perl" pages and string them into one big page on my HD. Yeah I know. I should've filtered and scraped and WWW-Mechanize'd away all the duplicated headers and footers and sidebars and stuff. A rainy day perhaps ...

#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::Simple;

my $url;
my $doc;
my $path = "http://www.perlmonks.org/?";
my $fn = "coolness.html";

open TO_FILE, ">> $fn"  or die ": $!";
for (my $i=0;$i<300;$i+=15) {
    $url = $path . "next=" . $i . ";node_id=1044"; 
    warn $url, "\n";
    $doc = get($url);
    print TO_FILE $doc;
}
close TO_FILE;

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(But I'm curious, maybe someone knows: could the for( ) loop be replaced by a while(< >) contruct? Looks a bit verbose, that $doc variable shunting inbound pages to the filehandle. Um?)

(Be kind. You were all once newbies too.)

Unconsidered by castaway - already been considered a few times, we're leaving it unapproved.

In reply to Cool Uses, re-used by nnvsnu

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