Dear SuperMonks, I'm very new to Perl w/ no legitimate programming background. That said, I looked at the strings and files_and_directories tutorials but didn't see the answer there.

I am trying to fetch the files off of numerous similar pages such as this and want the script to save/catalog those files as "gid_2007_08_06_quiaaa_yucaaa_1_112039.xml", etc. instead of just "112039.xml" which is the only way I know how to script it to save at the moment. I want to catalog in the new fashion because there are numerous "gids" (game IDs as shown above) for each batter ID (ie 112039).

Here is the snippet of code that is resulting in the files downloading only as ".xml":

open PLYRS, ">$outputdir\\$game_players.xml"

The files save to $outputdir correctly but I don't know what to replace '$game_players.xml' with to achieve the desired results as described above.

What strategy might you recommend or tutorial might there be to learn how to do this? Thanks!

In reply to How to Save Fetched Web Files as "path/$string.xml" by nase

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