Hi All,

this is my first week using perl, so please excuse the stupid question I am about to ask. I hope you all would be able to assist me.

I need to write a script that parses out an html file. Unfortunately, the following only works on local and dir:

for ie: 

my $html='http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/12/begperl4.html';
open (FH, $html) or die "Cannot open file: $!";
close (FH)

[download]

I get the following error: Cannot open file: Invalid argument

Can somebody tell me how I can access the www file so that I may parse it?

thanks so much !!

20080115 Janitored by Corion: Added formatting, code tags, as per Writeup Formatting Tips

In reply to opening html files by joepepsi18

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