Scope: Extract a clean forecast from this url:
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/zone/pa/paz049.txt

I use HTTPGET on a WinXP Pro box to d/l the file. I was given this code (from Chatterbox users) to delete the first 16 lines:
perl -n -i.bak -e "print if $.>16" paz049.txt

Someone on the Chatterbox (bart and diotalevi) suggested a solution using:
print if s/^\.//

The "good" lines of the forecast all have a period at the beginning. I'm assuming this could be used to "extract" the good lines.

The .txt file is used for a weather crawler on in-store digital signage ( think WalMart TV). I'm using a batch file to execute the HTTPGET and the lines of perl.

Any help for this Perl NOOB is greatly appreciated.

Ben

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