I started with Perl a few days ago and now reached a point I don't see how to get further. Thus, I'd like to have a text file created for each id (max. currently 30000) on www.securityfocus.com/bid. The information I need is in a table, this is why I use depth and count. So far I have coded the following:

#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w

# Purpose: Script for extracting data from tables and write it to a te
+xt file
# Version: 0.3

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use HTML::TableExtract;

my $table;  # table of interest
my $html_file = "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid"; # url of web site
my $te;   # table extract
my $ts;   # table search
my $row;  # row of table of interest
my @securityfocus;  # array

for(1..30000) {
  my $table = $html_file."/".$_;
  $te = HTML::TableExtract->new( depth => 1, count => 0 );
  $te->parse_file($table);
}

foreach $ts ($te->tables) {
   print "Table found at ", join(',', $ts->coords), ":\n";
   foreach $row ($ts->rows) {
       print "   ", join(',', @$row), "\n";
    }
}

@securityfocus=("Bugtraq ID: \n","Class: \n","CVE: \n","Remote: \n","L
+ocal: \n",
"Published: \n","Updated: \n","Credit: \n","Vulnerable: \n","Not Vulne
+rable: \n");
open(OUTPUTFILE,">bid.txt") or die "Can't open bid.txt $!";
print OUTPUTFILE @securityfocus;
close(OUTPUTFILE) or die "Can't close bid.txt $!";

open(OUTPUTFILE,"bid.txt") or die "Can't open bid.txt $!";
while (<OUTPUTFILE>)
{
chomp;
print " $_ \n";
}
close(OUTPUTFILE) or die "Can't close bid.txt $!";
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I appreciate your help - Tom

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