Hello monks,

Thanks for all your help so far.

Here be my latest problem.

Suppose I want to fetch any number of webpages from a site, the base URL is the same,   http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/horse.asp?HorseNo= but the final four digits are different.

I have a text file (A-list) that looks like this.

E246
E060
G108

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and I want to run this code to fetch and strip the pages. 

#! /usr/bin/perl

#open text file and fill array
open(MYINPUTFILE, "<A-list"); # open for input
my(@A_in) = <MYINPUTFILE>; # read file into list

#remove whitespace
@A_list = map { s/^\s+//; s/\s+$//; $_ } @A_in;

close(MYINPUTFILE);
 

#fetch each webpage
foreach (@A_list) {
chomp $A_list;

my $url = "http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/horse.asp?HorseNo=$A_lis
+t";

   

  use LWP::Simple;
  my $content = get $url;
  die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;


#strip away the HTML
use HTML::Strip;

  my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();

  my $clean_text = $hs->parse( $content );
  $hs->eof;

print $clean_text;
}

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But it seems to be returning UNDEF. I can't seem to make it work.

I will crack this language if it kills me.

Any comments?

In reply to Grabbing many webpages with foreach by monkeybus

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